^ Or they could extend the Orange Line 5 miles to the site. There's a utility corridor running through Bedford Park, they could build an at-grade line similar to the Skokie Swift for ~$10M/mile.
All the grade crossings are pretty low-traffic industrial park things. Assuming 3 miles at grade and 2 miles elevated, that's $270M. Not crazy when you consider that the Toyota Park site could be used for remote airport parking or park-and-ride to the city. Hell, a new stadium near downtown would cost that much easily when you factor in all the parking, infrastructure, etc going into it.
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