Green Light the 63rd & Racine Green Line Stop

Green Light the 63rd & Racine Green Line Stop

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April 23, 2021
Signatures: 882Next Goal: 1,000
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Started by Go Green On Racine

Over the past few decades, Chicago’s brutal history of racial inequity, redlining, discrimination, and lack of investment created a spiral of declining population and commercial activity in the Englewood community. In the midst of this decline, in 1994 the CTA closed the entire Green Line for renovation – and then decided to never re-open six of its stops.  Given the Racine station’s historic status, that station was not torn down but was shuttered with its platforms eventually to be removed. Instead of an improved station and expanded access to the rest of the city, 63rd and Racine was left with an abandoned shell. A group of over 20 community leaders known as the Green Line coalition protested these decisions outside of then Mayor Richard M. Daley’s office, claiming that the CTA had reneged on its promise to reopen the stations and that closures would limit economic development in their communities.  The Go Green on Racine Project is a resident-led transformation around 63rd/Racine creating thriving green-node, through mixed-use development, food co-operative, and recycling enterprise, forging vision for new commercial corridor with re-opened Green-Line station. After decades of living with the abandoned station’s physical reminder of broken promises and public disinvestment, the Go Green On Racine team is mobilizing and reawaking the struggle once started by the Green Line Coalition, to re-open the Racine station by 2024! Show your support by signing our petition to reopen this station today! 

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