“...The state of Illinois approved a $224 million budget, allotting $174 million for road work around the presidential center and an additional $50 million to renovate an above-ground railway station two miles away from the center...”
Eliminate the graft, favoritism, corruption, bribery etc from the equation and the true cost would probably be closer to $20 million. One cent would be too much.
Only costs about $10 million per mile for new urban interstate.
But Chicago has some of the highest union pay in the country.
Lots of people getting fat on this project