Elevated Chicago

Chicago’s intercity bus station serves ~500,000 riders a year and is critical for travelers who rely on affordable transit. Chicago was close to losing its main downtown intercity bus station in 2024, but the public fought to save it. Now a long-term solution to save and fix the station is in sight. 
 
📣 Email your alderperson and share your thoughts about why the city should buy the station and improve intercity bus service for Chicago.  
 
Take action (link in our bio): https://elpc.org/take-action-chicago-bus-station/

Your voice is essential in shaping the future of reparations in our city. How? 
 
The City of Chicago is gathering input to help inform the Chicago’s Reparations Study. We encourage you to complete the survey and share your lived experiences, priorities, and perspectives. Once you complete the full survey, you will be entered into a sweepstakes with the chance to win a $100 gift card. Surveys will be accepted through May 31, 2026. 

Please share this survey with your networks!

Survey link: bit.ly/ccrs2026

Calling all artists and performers!

The is expanding its arts program to support new opportunities for temporary art installations, performances, and cultural activations across the transit system.

Through this new initiative, CTA is seeking to fund organizations, artists, and performers up to $50,000 to create community-driven temporary exhibits and programming. The goal of the program is to create more welcoming, vibrant, and engaging station environments while reflecting the character of surrounding communities.

Proposals are being accepted for 2026 activations at the following stations:
- 95th Street Red Line Station
- Damen Green Line Station
- Damen Pink Line Station
- Kimball Brown Line Station

Applications are now open and due Wednesday, July 1. Additional information, including program guidelines and application details, is available at transitchicago.com/art/activations.

Questions or comments? Contact [email protected]

We’re excited to share our new report, The State of ETOD in Chicago, highlighting Chicago’s progress on equitable transit-oriented development over the past five years. 
 
The report shows how has grown from a niche planning concept into a broader framework shaping housing, planning, and investment across the city. Chicago has made meaningful progress expanding transit-oriented development beyond downtown and the North Side to communities on the South and West Sides—becoming a national leader on ETOD in the process. 
 
While progress has been made across all 42 ETOD Policy Plan recommendations, there is still important work ahead, especially on the Far South Side and Southwest Side. 
 
With major transit investments on the horizon and the Red Line Extension underway, Chicago has a major opportunity to continue advancing equitable, transit-connected development without displacement. 
 
Read the full report at the link in bio. 
 
Special thanks to the report’s authors, our coalition partners, our City partners at , , .dot, , and the Mayor’s Office, and our funders whose collaboration and support made this work possible. 
 
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