Extending the Red Line south to the city’s border would serve as part of a continuing “racial reckoning” that is necessary to grapple with the “transit apartheid” that has led to decades of disinvestment on the South Side, said Lou Turner, a professor of urban and regional planning for the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

The number keeps growing – there have been several dozen violent robberies in Chicago in three and a half weeks – and not one arrest. The robberies have been happening on the city’s North, Northwest, and West sides. We have been tracking the crime trend closely for weeks.