The Chicago Transit Authority on Friday officially began construction on a $5.75 billion rail extension that will bring CTA train service to the city’s Far South Side.

The long-anticipated CTA extension was in limbo after the Trump Administration froze approximately $2 billion in funding for the CTA's Red Line Extension and Red & Purple Line Modernization projects.

Plans to extend the CTA Red Line to the Far South Side of Chicago are finally on track. The Red Line extension project broke ...

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CHICAGO — An idea first floated more than 50 years ago to extend the Chicago Transit Authority’s Red Line to the Far South Side is closer to becoming a reality with nearly $2B in federal funding now ...

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