O’Hare to the Loop in 15 minutes? New company thinks it can happen 2026

<h3>Good morning, Chicago. ✶</h3><p>🔎 <b>Below</b>: Where Elon Musk and former Mayor Rahm Emanuel failed, owners of a new company think they can finally bring fast rail to Chicago.</p><p>🗞️ <b>Plus</b>: Chicago Public Schools ends summer of budget angst, "Soul City" waits for its promised landmark and more news you need to know.</p><p>📝 <b>Keeping score</b>: <a class="Link" href="https://newsletters.suntimes.com/t/t-l-ydoae-l-j/" target="_blank" >The Cubs shut out the Diamondbacks</a>, 7-0; <a class="Link" href="https://newsletters.suntimes.com/t/t-l-ydoae-l-t/" target="_blank" >the White Sox fell to the Rangers</a>, 11-2.</p><p>📧 <b>Subscribe</b>: <a class="Link" href="https://newsletter-hub.suntimes.com/" target="_blank" ><i>Get our morning newsletter delivered to your inbox weekday mornings.</i></a></p><p>⏱️: <i>An 8-minute read</i></p><hr><p></p><h4>TODAY’S WEATHER 🌤️</h4><p>Mostly sunny with a high near 81.</p><hr><p></p><h4><a class="Link" href="https://newsletters.suntimes.com/t/t-l-ydoae-l-i/" target="_blank" >CHICAGO JIGSAW PUZZLE</a> 🧩</h4><div class="Enhancement" data-align-floatLeft>
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</div><p>Piece together history&nbsp;to reveal more about today’s photo from the Sun-Times archives.</p><p><a class="Link" href="https://newsletters.suntimes.com/t/t-l-ydoae-l-h/" target="_blank" ><b>PLAY NOW</b></a></p><hr><p></p><h4>TODAY’S TOP STORY 🔎</h4><div class="Enhancement" data-align-center>
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</div><p></p><h3><a class="Link" href="https://newsletters.suntimes.com/t/t-l-ydoae-l-o/" target="_blank" >This company thinks it can finally bring fast rail to Chicago</a></h3><p></p><h5>Reporting by <a class="Link" href="https://newsletters.suntimes.com/t/t-l-ydoae-l-b/" target="_blank" >David Struett</a></h5><p><b>O'Hare Flyer</b>: People have tried and failed over the years to build a nonstop, quick rail connection from the Loop to O'Hare Airport, but a new company says it can succeed with the O'Hare Flyer — an affordable 15-minute trip from the Old Post Office to O'Hare on battery-powered trains at an average of 80 mph.</p><p><b>Who's behind this?</b>: The $2.25 billion pitch is from veteran Chicago train consultant Mark Walbrun — who led the redesign of Union Station in the 1990s — and fellow cofounders David Lundy, a strategic consultant, and Kristi Lafleur, former director of the Illinois Tollway and former CEO of the Chicago Skyway.</p><p><b>How would it work?</b>: The key to success, they say, is using newly freed-up freight railroad land at a Union Pacific yard on the Near West Side. It's now possible for a private company to run quick crosstown service — through the West and Northwest sides — with minimal construction on 100% dedicated tracks, they say. They plan to build a station just west of the Old Post Office, using the long-abandoned tracks under Canal Street.</p><p><b>Key context</b>: In 2018, Elon Musk was chosen by then-Mayor Rahm Emanuel <a class="Link" href="https://newsletters.suntimes.com/t/t-l-ydoae-l-n/" target="_blank" >to build an underground tunnel</a> from downtown to O’Hare, with then-untested "Hyperloop" technology that promised 12-minute trips in autonomous vehicles racing over 100 mph. The project fell through after Emanuel chose not to seek reelection and Musk was scrutinized for smoking pot on Joe Rogan's podcast.</p><p><a class="Link" href="https://newsletters.suntimes.com/t/t-l-ydoae-l-p/" target="_blank" ><b>READ MORE</b></a></p><hr><p></p><h4>EDUCATION 🍎</h4><div class="Enhancement" data-align-center>
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<div class="CarouselSlide-infoTitle"><span class="CarouselSlide-infoDescription">Parent Karylees Alvira walks with her 9-year-old daughter, Kailyane Sanabria, who is going into fourth grade, as they arrive at Schubert Elementary in Belmont Cragin on Monday.</span>

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<div class="CarouselSlide-infoTitle"><span class="CarouselSlide-infoDescription">At Prosser Career Academy in Belmont Cragin, teens mulled outside and took selfies before the first day of school.</span>

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<div class="CarouselSlide-infoTitle"><span class="CarouselSlide-infoDescription">A student checks in on the first day of school Monday at George Leland Elementary School at 512 S. Lavergne Ave. in Austin.</span>

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<img class="Image" alt="Parents watch as students walk into school Monday on the first day of class at George Leland Elementary School at 512 S. Lavergne Ave. in Austin." srcset="https://cst.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/2a64862/2147483647/strip/true/crop/6122×4045+0+19/resize/840×555!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fchorus-production-cst-web.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com%2Fbrightspot%2Fe5%2F7a%2F093d3db44efcb822aa3472ca3755%2Ffirstdaycps-260825-54.jpg 1x,https://cst.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/3ba2a45/2147483647/strip/true/crop/6122×4045+0+19/resize/1680×1110!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fchorus-production-cst-web.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com%2Fbrightspot%2Fe5%2F7a%2F093d3db44efcb822aa3472ca3755%2Ffirstdaycps-260825-54.jpg 2x" width="840" height="555"
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<div class="CarouselSlide-infoTitle"><span class="CarouselSlide-infoDescription">Parents watch as students walk into school Monday on the first day of class at George Leland Elementary School at 512 S. Lavergne Ave. in Austin.</span>

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<div class="CarouselSlide-infoTitle"><span class="CarouselSlide-infoDescription">Staff greeted students at Leland Elementary for their first day of school Monday with balloons, a red carpet and pompoms.</span>

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<div class="CarouselSlide-infoTitle"><span class="CarouselSlide-infoDescription">Students at Leland Elementary in Austin got a red-carpet welcome for their first day of school Monday.</span>

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<span class="CarouselSlide-infoAttribution">Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times</span></div>
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</div><p></p><h3><a class="Link" href="https://newsletters.suntimes.com/t/t-l-ydoae-l-v/" target="_blank" >Austin was christened ‘Soul City.’ It’s still waiting for its landmark.</a></h3><p></p><h5>Reporting by <a class="Link" href="https://newsletters.suntimes.com/t/t-l-ydoae-l-e/" target="_blank" >Erica Thompson</a></h5><p><b>Waiting on the city</b>: Since 2020, Austin residents have been waiting for the city to build a gateway arch at the entrance of its Soul City Corridor, the stretch of Chicago Avenue from Austin Boulevard to Cicero Avenue touting several Black-owned businesses, including the Avenue Que and Kitchen, Spill the Beans coffee shop, T&amp;C Fitness Club and Forty Acres Fresh Market.</p><p><b>High hopes:</b> Neighbors were thrilled when an artist, Bernard Williams, was selected, and renderings were drawn up. And last year, Illinois designated a larger segment of Austin as Soul City, one of 15 official cultural districts in the state, paving the way for $200,000 in additional monies to boost the neighborhood.</p><p><b>Stalled promise</b>: Gateway construction has stalled, leaving the burgeoning development of Black business, arts and culture unidentifiable to those driving from the west suburbs into the city. The delay of a single symbol illustrates how bureaucratic the process to create a cultural district in Illinois can be.</p><p><b>See for yourself</b>: From a renovated concert auditorium to a youth urban design group, here are <a class="Link" href="https://newsletters.suntimes.com/t/t-l-ydoae-l-s/" target="_blank" >four arts spaces contributing to Austin’s revival</a>.</p><p><a class="Link" href="https://newsletters.suntimes.com/t/t-l-ydoae-l-g/" target="_blank" ><b>READ MORE</b></a></p><hr><p></p><h4>MORE NEWS YOU NEED 🗞️</h4><div class="Enhancement" data-align-center>
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</div><p></p><h3><a class="Link" href="https://newsletters.suntimes.com/t/t-l-ydoae-l-ij/" target="_blank" >Humboldt Park mural celebrates stories of faith</a></h3><p></p><h5>Reporting by <a class="Link" href="https://newsletters.suntimes.com/t/t-l-ydoae-l-it/" target="_blank" >Genevieve Bookwalter</a></h5><p>Diamond V. Galindo grew up in Humboldt Park's New Life Community Church. She stopped by after school for homework help. She spent her summers there, signing up for its programs for kids.</p><p>Artist Alecks Cruz didn't know any of that when he asked Galindo, whose artist name is Diamond Doodle, to be lead artist for a new mural on the side of the church at 1410 N. Springfield Ave. as part of his program, The Heart Project. But for Galindo, who now lives in West Ridge, it was her chance to thank the church and community that helped her as a neighborhood kid in Humboldt Park.</p><p>"I feel like this is my thank you note to it," Galindo says. "When he told me they’re going to do a mural over there, I said, 'Let’s do this.' We did this whole mural representing the community, bringing hope and light. They’re a second family in that church."</p><p><a class="Link" href="https://newsletters.suntimes.com/t/t-l-ydoae-l-ii/" target="_blank" ><b>READ MORE</b></a></p><hr><p></p><h4>YOUR DAILY QUESTION ☕️</h4><p><b>What's your pro tip for taking the CTA?</b></p><p><a class="Link" href="mailto:[email protected]" target="_blank" ><i>Reply to this question via emai</i></a><i>l (please include your first and last name). We may run your answer in a future newsletter or story.</i></p><hr><p></p><h4>PICTURE CHICAGO 📸</h4><div class="Enhancement" data-align-center>
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<div class="Figure-content"><figcaption class="Figure-caption"><p>Visceral Dance Chicago dance ensemble performs at the <a class="Link" href="https://newsletters.suntimes.com/t/t-l-ydoae-l-ih/" target="_blank" >35th annual “Dance for Life” showcase</a> at The Auditorium on Saturday. The “greatest hits” of Chicago dance event raises money for a health care fund for performers.</p></figcaption><span class="line"></span><div class="Figure-credit"><p>Barry Brecheisen/For the Sun-Times</p></div></div>

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