IL-2025-001
Project Grant
Overview
Grant Description
Application purpose: The purpose of this award is to provide funding to the project.
This funding will provide the necessary assistance in meeting regional transportation needs.
This project provides for greater choices and options regarding how to travel in and throughout the region thereby reducing congestion and vehicle emissions during peak travel periods in the region.
Activities performed: Funds in this grant will be used to design and construct the project, a 5.5-mile heavy rail extension to the existing RED LINE Dan Ryan Branch on Chicago's far south side from the present 95th Street terminal to the 130th Street area that will include four new fully accessible stations, multimodal connections at each station, parking facilities, new traction power substations, a new yard and maintenance shop facility, and the purchase of 78 rail cars.
Expected outcomes: The project will provide affordable rapid transit to historically underserved communities on Chicago's far south side.
The project will improve mobility for transit-dependent residents in the project area where over 22% of households lack access to an automobile.
The project will help reverse decades of disinvestment in local business districts by catalyzing station area redevelopment and enhancing economic opportunity through connections to employment, educational opportunities, housing, and other services.
The project will provide up to 30 minutes of time savings to riders traveling from the 130th Street terminal station to the Loop (Chicago's central business district).
Intended beneficiaries: New and existing transit riders benefit from the project along with the region seeing reduced congestion and vehicle emissions during peak travel periods in the region.
Subrecipient activities: None.
This funding will provide the necessary assistance in meeting regional transportation needs.
This project provides for greater choices and options regarding how to travel in and throughout the region thereby reducing congestion and vehicle emissions during peak travel periods in the region.
Activities performed: Funds in this grant will be used to design and construct the project, a 5.5-mile heavy rail extension to the existing RED LINE Dan Ryan Branch on Chicago's far south side from the present 95th Street terminal to the 130th Street area that will include four new fully accessible stations, multimodal connections at each station, parking facilities, new traction power substations, a new yard and maintenance shop facility, and the purchase of 78 rail cars.
Expected outcomes: The project will provide affordable rapid transit to historically underserved communities on Chicago's far south side.
The project will improve mobility for transit-dependent residents in the project area where over 22% of households lack access to an automobile.
The project will help reverse decades of disinvestment in local business districts by catalyzing station area redevelopment and enhancing economic opportunity through connections to employment, educational opportunities, housing, and other services.
The project will provide up to 30 minutes of time savings to riders traveling from the 130th Street terminal station to the Loop (Chicago's central business district).
Intended beneficiaries: New and existing transit riders benefit from the project along with the region seeing reduced congestion and vehicle emissions during peak travel periods in the region.
Subrecipient activities: None.
Awardee
Funding Goals
THE CAPITAL INVESTMENT GRANT (CIG) PROGRAM PROVIDES FUNDING FOR FIXED GUIDEWAY INVESTMENTS SUCH AS NEW AND EXPANDED RAPID RAIL COMMUTER RAIL LIGHT RAIL STREETCARS BUS RAPID TRANSIT AND FERRIES AS WELL AS CORRIDOR-BASED BUS RAPID TRANSIT INVESTMENTS THAT EMULATE THE FEATURES OF RAIL.
Grant Program (CFDA)
Awarding Agency
Funding Agency
Place of Performance
Illinois
United States
Geographic Scope
State-Wide
Related Opportunity
NA
Chicago Transit Authority was awarded
Chicago South Side Rail Extension: Enhancing Transit Access
Project Grant IL-2025-001
worth $1,096,000,000
from the FTA Office of Budget and Policy in January 2025 with work to be completed primarily in Illinois United States.
The grant
has a duration of 6 years 7 months and
was awarded through assistance program 20.500 Federal Transit Capital Investment Grants.
$4,522,054,647 (80.0%) of this Project Grant was funded by non-federal sources.
Status
(Ongoing)
Last Modified 9/22/25
Period of Performance
1/11/25
Start Date
8/5/31
End Date
Funding Split
$1.1B
Federal Obligation
$4.5B
Non-Federal Obligation
$5.6B
Total Obligated
Activity Timeline
Transaction History
Modifications to IL-2025-001
Additional Detail
Award ID FAIN
IL-2025-001
SAI Number
IL-2025-001-01-20.500
Award ID URI
SAI EXEMPT
Awardee Classifications
Other
Awarding Office
695124 REGION 5 DOT FTA
Funding Office
693JJ8 OFFICE OF BUDGET AND POLICY(TBP)
Awardee UEI
WGM2QPTUV877
Awardee CAGE
3T3D7
Performance District
IL-90
Senators
Richard Durbin
Tammy Duckworth
Tammy Duckworth
Modified: 9/22/25