Growing up in Chicago’s Englewood neighborhood, I recall a streetcar ride to 63rd and Halsted was as exciting as a trip downtown, and the Englewood train station offered a ride to anywhere in our country. If Kenya Merritt, Mayor Brandon Johnson’s deputy mayor of business and neighborhood development, is seeking investment opportunities in Englewood (“Johnson’s team will scrap Invest South/West name, but not its aims,” Sept. 22) she might consider the investments made in Englewood’s heyday but not seen since: a capable police force assuring security and a public transportation system comparable to the service of yesterday’s streetcars.
Such investments would hasten the “vibrant commercial corridors and reliable transportation” Merritt desires, and need not take “five to seven years to show themselves.”
