I will just simply state the opinion that building a Howard-Dan Ryan extension 20, 30, 40 years ago would have lacked the same preventative affect on south side - and Chicago proper - black population decline as the same extension will have now. Black city to south suburb migration trends in Chicago and more importantly Black northern to southern state migration would still apply. The idea that a rapid transit extension would have stemmed these trends are as silly as the notion that it will stem them now.
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