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PoliticalCrisis🇺🇸United States 🇲🇽Mexico18d ago

Chicago has made substantial progress in encouraging more development near public transit in the South and West sides — five years after adopting a plan aimed to do just that.In 2021, city leaders created an Equitable Transit-Oriented Development, or ETOD, plan. Former Mayor Lori Lightfoot said at the time that the plan would “expand … access and give our most disinvested neighborhoods the long overdue opportunity to enjoy these benefits while not being forced out of the community they call home.”The city had long pushed for transit-oriented development, or TOD, projects near CTA bus or rail stops but shifted its framework to ensure more development in historically disinvested neighborhoods.There’s been “substantial progress” on more than half of the 42 recommendations the city of Chicago laid out in its 2021 policy, though more work needs to be done, according to a <a class="Link" href="https://elevatedchicago.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/State-of-ETOD-Report-FINAL.pdf" target="_blank" >May report</a> from Elevated Chicago, a coalition of community-based organizations, artists, developers and civic leaders.“It's a huge amount of progress. I think we should be collectively proud as a city that we have made so much progress in intentionally investing in more projects, investing resources and technical assistance,” Juan Sebastian Arias, executive director of Elevated Chicago, said.

3.5/10·Chicago Sun-Times·Chicago, Illinois

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