The 14th Street rail yard story keeps not being about the 14th Street rail yard.
Quick recap. Amtrak wants to move its maintenance operation off the 47 acres along the river near 14th, which is the land Justin Ishbia has been circling for a (rumored) ballpark. The replacement would go up in Bridgeport, on Canal between 33rd and 35th: four stories, running 24 hours, roughly $900 million, with about $600 million of federal money behind it. The developer is Canal Edge LLC. That is Ishbia too.
This week Bridgeport neighbors pushed back hard. Dick Durbin and Tammy Duckworth asked the Federal Railroad Administration and Amtrak to actually explain the thing to the people who will live next to it. Ald. Nicole Lee said the speed of it is a thousand percent alarming.
Worth remembering on our side of the river: none of our 47 acres clear until theirs does.
CBS Chicago and NBC 5 both have the details:
Is this a fair trade? Tell us in the comments.
