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== Projects ==

[[File:CREATE Program Status Chart.png|alt=Graph showing projects divided into status (complete, under construction, in design, not started)|thumb|Project status as of 2022]]

The program currently comprises 70 separate projects.<ref>{{Cite web|title=CREATE Projects|url=https://www.createprogram.org/projects/|access-date=2021-07-06|website=CREATE Program|language=en-US|archive-date=2021-07-09|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210709185202/https://www.createprogram.org/projects/|url-status=live}}</ref> As of JuneApril 20242025, a total of 3335 had been fully completed, fivesix were under construction, eightseven were in final design and another seveneight were in the preliminary design and environmental review process. The remaining 1714 were awaiting identification of funding to enter preliminary design and environmental review.<ref>{{Cite web |last=CREATE |title=CREATE Program - Overall Project Status Summary June 2024 |url=https://www.createprogram.wpenginepowered.comorg/wp-content/uploads/status_map.pdf}}</ref>

===Major projects===

==== 75th Street Corridor Improvement Project ====

[[File:Aerial view of Forest Hills Flyover construction (1), October 2024.JPG|thumb|right|Forest Hill Flyover under construction in 2024]]

The 75th Street Corridor Improvement Project (75th St. CIP) is the largest project in the CREATE Program.<ref>{{Cite web|title=CREATE 75th|url=https://www.75thcip.org/|access-date=2021-07-06|website=www.75thcip.org}}</ref> The project is located in the Chicago neighborhoods of [[Ashburn, Chicago|Ashburn]], [[Englewood, Chicago|Englewood]], [[Auburn Gresham, Chicago|Auburn Gresham]] and [[Chatham, Chicago|West Chatham]] along two passenger and four freight rail lines. It will eliminate the most congested rail chokepoint in the Chicago region, [[Belt Junction]], where 30 [[Metra]] and 90 freight trains per day cross each other's paths. It is broken out into four projects: