The City Council agreed Wednesday to vacate streets and alleys to pave the way for a $150 million expansion of Norfolk Southern Railway’s intermodal yard in Englewood after the local alderperson lifted the legislative brick.
Last month, Ald. Jeanette Taylor extended what has been a 15-year odyssey for the rail giant by using a parliamentary maneuver to delay the project. It has been mired in controversy over the residential displacement it required and the truck traffic and pollution it caused for those residents who remain.
A redevelopment agreement, hammered out in 2014, does the "bare minimum in the Black and Brown community," she said, and she did not sign off on it. Norfolk Southern called Wednesday’s vote an "important moment" for an expansion critical to Chicago’s "role as the heart of our nation’s supply chain." "It costs a lot of money to do runoffs. If you have a ranked-choice voting system, you wouldn’t have a need for that. People could be really excited — not just about their first-choice candidate, but perhaps a second- or third-choice candidate who maybe, while not being their absolute preferred candidate, is one that they would be happy to see. They would no longer have to engage in strategic voting around, ‘Who do I like who also has a related chance of winning?’" Martin said.
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