Clarence Page: A small step toward reversing the decades-long community harm of Chicago’s expressways
When President Joe Biden’s administration last week announced the award of $2 million to help “reconnect” Chicago neighborhoods torn apart by massive expressway construction since the 1950s and ’60s, my first reaction was, “It’s about time.”
That was followed by a question: How are they going to do it?
Two million dollars doesn’t sound like much in this age of trillion-dollar budgets. But, as I was reminded, this is a “planning” grant, aimed at studying how the goal of reconnecting
