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Chicago Tribune: With Cook County’s help, South Siders could see lower fares on Metra
For more than two decades, South Side community advocates have hoped for cheaper, more frequent Metra service to provide another transit option in areas without easy access to the “L.”
That dream may be finally coming true.
Crain's Chicago Business: Here's where city home sales are strongest now
The strong markets are mostly on the South Side, continuing a run that showed up in 2018. (See the chart at the bottom of this story.) The South Side is hotter both because its neighborhoods are attracting more buyers—investors and homeowners—and because some neighborhoods, particularly the most desirable North Side areas, may have over-heated in recent years and become victims of their own success.
Crain's Chicago Business: Lightfoot's about to make a bad bet
Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s administration on July 17 released a list of five sites it wants to explore as possible locations for the city-owned casino approved in the last round of budget negotiations in Springfield. All five are in outlying and economically depressed South and West Side neighborhoods. Each has been the focus of one sort of prospective development or another. None is in or near downtown.