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by Sam Cholke
WOODLAWN — Upgrades are coming to the Cottage Grove Green Line station, the closest stop to the planned Obama presidential library, Mayor Rahm Emanuel said Monday.....The station is immediately next to a new residential and retail development by Preservation of Affordable Housing that broke ground last week. It is also the closest CTA train station to the proposed site for Barack Obama's library in Jackson Park, though it is several blocks way.
“If we’re putting housing in, putting after-school activities in for kids, we have to make sure our transit systems are working so kids can get to those great new facilities,” Emanuel said.
Rep. Bobby Rush (D-Chicago) said the improvements to the station could be the latest sign that Woodlawn is recapturing some of its glory days. Read more