The Biden administration just green-lighted a $2 million grant to study how to reconnect urban communities divided by expressways built long ago.
The 16-story towers of the Robert Taylor homes are bordered by railroad tracks and the Dan Ryan Expressway in the shadow of the downtown skyline in December 1984. When President Joe Biden’s administration last week announced the award of $2 million to help “reconnect” Chicago neighborhoods torn apart by massive expressway construction since the 1950s and ’60s, my first reaction was, “It’s about time.”Two million dollars doesn’t sound like much in this age of trillion-dollar budgets.
Few would argue that Burnham, who envisioned a roadway system radiating from the city’s center to far-off city neighborhoods and beyond, correctly grasped the growing need for swift transportation between the city and suburbs. On the South Side, for example, the Dan Ryan Expressway separated Bronzeville from Bridgeport, Daley’s home ward. “The Dan Ryan, for instance, was shifted several blocks during the planning stage to make it one of the ghetto’s walls,” Royko wrote. Only coincidence, said the mayor’s defenders, at least in public.
Chicago Tribune Historic Print: January 30, 1952. View looking west from main post office, showing caissons on which Congress expressway pavement will be supported. Elevated subway tracks will run in middle. Route is cleared west to Sacramento Blvd. . ..OUTSIDE TRIBUNE CO.- NO MAGS, NO SALES, NO INTERNET, NO TV.. Tribune vile photo 00259521A 2GETTINGAROUND
She advocated preserving the village-like neighborhoods such as Greenwich Village, where she lived — and which was once threatened by Moses’ plans until Jacobs and others stopped the bulldozers.
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