>> Cta service is coming to the far South Side construction on the Red Line Extension project is expected to get underway late next year.

As long as expected federal funding comes through in partnership with Wt Tw News, Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism students Explore residents hopes and concerns about the 5 year construction project.

Here's Alison Miller.

>> We thought it was like some type of a mythical creature like it wasn't really one >> people are skeptical or are we really going to build this project so we talk about the red line like, yeah, right?

It's not going to happen.

>> But it is more than 50 years ago.

The Chicago Transit Authority promised residents of the far South side a link to the rest of the city.

Now the Red Line Extension Project has a date.

Construction is set to begin next year and residents are fueling both optimistic and skeptical.

33 year-old Adel about Slawson has heard about the project since he was a child caused our children will be the community for school.

>> She's a lifelong resident of Old Coke Gardens, which is just west of the proposed 100 and 30th Street.

Stop.

The mother of 3 has mixed feelings about the project.

>> Transparency is everything.

And we hope.

That the project remains for the community.

So this is by the community.

>> That's Lawson is looking forward to faster travel to the rest of the city.

But she worries about whether construction might affect your health.

>> I have heart failure myself.

So it's hard to pinpoint where it came from because is so many risk around.

>> Privacy health, genetics, community.

It just doesn't.

And we just don't know where come We caught up with her at The O Co Gardens Fall She's the health equity organizer at People for Community Recovery.

The Environmental Justice Organization was created to combat the effects of industry and all go gardens.

The area has been coined Chicago's toxic.

Don't and research links manufacturing to high cancer rates and birth abnormalities.

>> All ready.

A community that has helped issues already project over time will calls wrist.

>> The CTA says dust and noise are expected by products of the construction like the Red Line Extension Committee says it will address these health concerns by working directly with affected families.

You recognize that people may need some extra combinations for health issues like asthma.

People should the preferred got The Red Line Extension project will create 4 new stops be on the current end of the line at 95th in the Dan Ryan.

The stations will be on 100 and 3rd street 100 11th Street, Michigan Avenue and 100 and 30th Street.

The CTA estimates.

38,000 people use the new stops every weekday.

Under Reid is the executive director of the Greater Roselyn Chamber of Commerce.

She's advocated for extending the red line since you need transportation to get to.

>> You know, medical help food.

>> Services.

Jobs, cutting off certain groups of people was done intentionally.

>> Residents say they don't trust officials because of the history of inadequate transportation.

it's races Will Cain.

It is.

I think day they says it expects in this community.

>> To just be OK with with things.

>> Sociologist loose McFarland found a community garden in Roseland a majority black community.

He created the Garden to support black and indigenous resilience and gathering.

The CTA purchase.

This garden, along with 50 other properties to make room for the new stations.

He's looking forward to the extension, bringing new business to the South side.

But Nick Foreman says he worries that just like the project of rooted his garden, it may also operate residents.

>> I'm very skeptical of these kinds of projects.

And I wonder if this stop is for the people who are in this neighborhood now it is maybe somebody who's going to placed a few years.

>> Chase says the CTA is addressing gentrification concerns.

>> We do want good stewards and help city and okay.

What kinds of responsible development can we do that supports the community.

Not just high rise for the sake of a high-rise on a corner, despite their worries, some residents remain hopeful about a promise soon to be fulfilled.

We could transform this community in 2, the thriving bustling community that it once was.

>> Lawson knows the impact of transportation barriers.

She says she was forced to drop out of college because of a 2 hour commute.

She says she hopes the Red Line extension means her children and the next generation of the far South Side won't have to face similar struggles, open up a different world a lot of folks >> don't have the necessities to travel out of can go farther because of time constraints gives them opportunity to see the other side of Chicago.

It's beautiful that way.

>> For Wt Tw and Northwestern's Medill School of journalism.

I'm Allison Miller.

>> Construction on the project is scheduled to be finished in 2029 CTA spokesperson Tammy Chase as concerns about