Efforts to Make Transit-Oriented Development Equitable Starting to Pay Off, Chicago Officials Say

For the better part of a decade, Chicago officials have been encouraging new developments to be built near the ‘L’, hoping to boost neighborhoods where people are more likely to hop a train to get to work or meet up with friends than jump in a car.

But like so many well-intentioned policies, Chicago officials found themselves confronting a series of unintended consequences that helped supercharge the deep inequities facing Chicago and its residents, including racial and economic segregation.