Amtrak officials and real estate developers clashed on Thursday with community members, who opposed plans to build a huge railway yard in Chinatown, Bridgeport and Armour Square as soon as the end of this year. The plan, led by Canal Edge LLC, by Justin Ishbia, a minority co-owner of the White Sox, includes a proposal for the Sox to play in a mixed-use facility along the Chicago River called The Railyards, on the South Loop, and for the Amtrak m…
Hundreds of residents confronted officials and developers who plan to build a facility in those neighborhoods, demanding responses to the project's impacts on safety, quality of life and the environment.