The CTA is extending the Red Line 5.5 miles south from 95th/Dan Ryan to 130th Street, with four new stations. Before the first train runs, this page freezes the corridor’s numbers — home prices, sales volumes, building permits, ridership at the terminal the extension relieves — so that when service begins, the before is already on the record and the after can be measured against it, not against memory. One thing the freeze shows now: in the three corridor areas with dozens to hundreds of sales a year, house medians have at least doubled since 2019, before any train.
Baseline frozen July 30, 2026 · every figure from a committed source file of an earlier analysis · re-measurement list at the endThe project, per CTA’s project page: the extension runs from the existing 95th/Dan Ryan terminal to 130th Street, 5.5 miles, with four fully accessible stations near 103rd Street, 111th Street, Michigan Avenue and 130th Street. The page describes construction as under way; it states no opening date, and this piece repeats none from elsewhere. We define the corridor as the four community areas the alignment and its station areas run through or border — Roseland, Pullman, West Pullman and Riverdale — an editorial choice, stated here so the follow-up uses the same map.
The baseline: what the corridor’s records show today
- Roseland366 house sales in 2025$70,000 → $145,0002
- Pullman49 house sales in 2025$68,900 → $178,0002
- West Pullman266 house sales in 2025$67,450 → $140,0001
- Riverdale11 house sales in 2025 — too few to lean on$37,350 → $130,0000
Sales and medians come from the same Assessor arm’s-length screens as our citywide sales analysis; permits from the same city permit file as our half-year permit count. The measurable-area line is drawn by volume: Roseland, West Pullman and Pullman each recorded at least 49 house sales in 2025 and at least 91 in 2019, while Riverdale’s figures ride on 12 sales in 2019 and 11 in 2025 — shown for completeness, too thin to characterize, and suppressed by our gentrification analysis for the same reason.
In the three higher-volume areas, prices have already doubled — from very low floors
Roseland’s median house sale went from $70,000 in 2019 to $145,000 in 2025; West Pullman’s from $67,450 to $140,000; Pullman’s from $68,900 to $178,000 — roughly a doubling in Roseland and West Pullman, and more than two and a half times in Pullman. Two framings keep this honest. First, the doubling starts from some of the lowest price floors in the city: even after it, every corridor median sits far below the citywide 2025 house median of $320,000. Second, this page attributes none of it to the extension — these years also carried a citywide price run-up. What this baseline does is narrower: it makes post-opening changes measurable. Attributing any of them to the extension would take comparisons beyond this page — against similar areas away from the corridor, for one — and the follow-up will have to declare its method when it makes them.
The terminal the extension relieves
95th/Dan Ryan — today’s end of the line, and the corridor’s bus-transfer hub — averaged 8,950 weekday entries in 2019, 4,511 in 2023 and 5,577 in 2025, with 2026 running at 5,604 through May 31, the newest data in the underlying file — about 62 percent of its pre-pandemic weekday traffic in the last complete year. When the four new stations open, their entries — and what happens to 95th’s — are the first thing the follow-up will read.
What we will re-measure when service begins
This is the pre-registration. When revenue service starts on the extension, we will re-run the same computations on the same files with the same screens and publish the comparison against this page: house sale medians and volumes in the four areas; new-construction permits in the four areas; weekday entries at 95th/Dan Ryan and at each of the four new stations; and new business licenses in Roseland and West Pullman, the two corridor areas large enough for our business-licenses analysis to report, from the same city license file it documents — their baseline: Roseland issued 62 new licenses in 2019 and 40 in 2025, West Pullman 32 and 20. The obligation is logged in the same tracker that schedules our other data updates, keyed to the opening — whenever CTA announces it.
How we counted
- Provenance: no new data was fetched for this page. Every figure is read from the committed source files of earlier analyses — house sales from our recorded-sales analysis (Cook County Assessor arm’s-length screens), 2019-versus-2025 medians from our gentrification-signals analysis, permits from our half-year permit count, and station entries from the CTA ridership files behind our transit analyses.
- The corridor: Roseland, Pullman, West Pullman and Riverdale — the community areas the alignment and station areas run through or border. Station locations are as CTA’s project page states them (“near” 103rd, 111th, Michigan Avenue and 130th); the area assignment is ours and the follow-up will use the same four.
- Riverdale: 11 house sales in 2025 and 12 in 2019 — far too few for stable medians, and our gentrification analysis suppresses the area for the same reason. Its rows are shown for completeness only.
- The project facts: CTA’s Red Line Extension project page, read in full July 30, 2026. It states no opening date, and this page makes no prediction about one.
- What this is not: a claim that the extension is changing the corridor. It is the measurement that will make such claims testable — in both directions — once trains run.
Computed by KCM Desk from previously committed Cook County and City of Chicago records; baseline frozen and published July 30, 2026. If you spot an error, corrections come first.