In Woodlawn, you can’t blame people for being alternately impatient for and distrustful of change. The South Side neighborhood next to Jackson Park has been a long time waiting for good things to happen.
In 1997, the CTA finished tearing down its unused Green Line tracks that ran above East 63rd Street, a remnant of a spur originally built to take riders to the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition. Mayor Richard M. Daley’s administration promised that getting rid of the rusted structure would end a blight and bring commercial development to the street.
