After four years of construction and closures, the CTA has reopened four Red Line stations.
Politicians, construction workers and neighbors gathered for a ribbon-cutting Monday morning under the rebuilt Argyle stop.
With L trains passing overhead, acting CTA President Nora Leerhson called it and other stations “gateways to opportunity, fulfillment and freedom”.
To get $1 billion from Washington, US Senator Dick Durbin says they had to change a law years ago that had only allowed federal funds to be used for new transit systems.
The ceremony came a day after the stations at Lawrence, Argyle, Berwyn and Bryn Mawr reopened with new elevators, escalators, wider platforms and quieter trains.
Larry Smiley told WBBM he had been waiting years for the Argyle station to reopen near his home and he hopes it will bring more businesses to that part of Uptown.
Mayor Brandon Johnson says the $2.1 billion project replaced century-old tracks and stations along the Red Line, which he called the “backbone” of Chicago.
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