CHICAGO: DAN RYAN EXPRESSWAY

The Dan Ryan Expressway (I-90) cuts a path of destruction through Chicago’s South and West Sides, displacing over 81,000 people. When the government built the highway in the 1960s, despite making up only 23% of the total population of the city, 64% of those displaced were Black. Much of the rest were recent European immigrants on the North Side, hispanic people on the West Side, and Asian-Americans (Chinatown, on the South Side, was cut in half by the bizarrely braided interchange with I-55 and walled off to the east by stub-end approach ramps of I-90).