Eugene Rogers has spent most of his life on Chicago's Far South Side, an area Rogers calls a "public transit desert [that] has always been pushed to the back burner."
So Wednesday's vote by the Chicago Transit Authority's board to extend the Red Line by more than 5 miles south to his part of the city is an outstretched hand to disadvantaged minority neighborhoods marred by empty lots, poverty and a feeling of isolation, said Rogers, 69. Full story. |