The costly lunacy of Block 37/CTA express rail service to O’Hare and Midway Airports
If it’s a good idea, it shouldn’t take all that long to get it going.
By many accounts, Chicago took only four years to rebuild and obliterate just about all signs of the 1871 fire that destroyed downtown and most of the city.
Reversing the flow of the Chicago River—an engineering marvel of its time—took 13 years from conception until its 1900 finish. Literally raising the city a half dozen feet out its swampy bottom took six years in the mid-1850s, a mere 30 years after the city’s founding.
Then there’s block 37.
It’ll be almost two decades since the city demolished an entire block in the heart of the Loop before the mixed-use development, including a superstation for CTA “express” service to the airports, is completed, and that’s still just a projection. Add another 20 years or so, ... Read More...
