Renovation of the Lake Street/Midtown Blue Line station is delayed

Renovation of the Lake Street/Midtown Blue Line station is delayed

Nearly every day, Kalyaisha and Larita Maddox use the Lake Street/Midtown Blue Line light rail station. Their reviews are less than glowing. The Maddoxes describe regular drug use, a consistent smell of urine and rarely operating escalators. “Every day coming up here, I gotta go through the same [stuff],” Larita said, descriptively. So when the duo heard recent news of a yearlong – at least – delay to the long-planned renovation of the busiest s…