Lightfoot Pushes City Council to Use Downtown Property Taxes to Fund Far South Side Red Line Extension

Lightfoot formally introduced a proposal on Wednesday to the Chicago City Council to create a new tax-increment financing district along the southern branch of the CTA Red Line to fund the extension of the train line first envisioned by former Mayor Richard J. Daley in the 1950s. 

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