A Community Celebrates the CTA Red Line Extension Decades in the Making

Source WTTW
Original Load Date May 7, 2026, 9 p.m.
Last Updated May 7, 2026, 9 p.m.
Original URL https://news.wttw.com/2026/05/07/community-celebrates-cta-red-line-extension-decades-making

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Plans to extend the CTA Red Line to the Far South Side of Chicago are finally on track. The Red Line extension project broke ground last month, after decades of planning and months of federal funding uncertainty. The project would add 5.5 miles of tracks and four new stations between the current en...