IL: How Elon Musk's O'Hare Express Got The Fast Track In Chicago
Aug. 10, 2018
Underneath the popular Block 37 shopping complex in downtown Chicago is a partially finished, unused train station.
Source WBEZ
Underneath the popular Block 37 shopping complex in downtown Chicago is a partially finished, unused train station.
Thirteen years later, with taxpayers still paying off the loan that financed the $218 million station, Mayor Rahm Emanuel has found somebody to fulfill those high-speed dreams: entrepreneur Elon Musk.
A man looking for a fast track to build an even faster transit tunnel found a place where the politics allowed him to do just that — Chicago.
