The Englewood Railway Coalition (ERC) was founded in 2011 as a 501C3 to represent homeowners in the Englewood community against Norfolk Southern Corp. Englewood is an established African-American neighborhood on Chicago’s South Side. The 22 coalition members are proud, hardworking Chicagoans who have retired as, or who are presently working as: a librarian, public school teachers, university profe
ssor, school bus driver, nurse, pharmaceutical sales manager, police officer, licensed carpenter, entrepreneurs and elevator maintenance engineer. We have owned our homes an average of 34.7 years and are not interested in selling them. In response, Norfolk Southern Corp., a Fortune 500 corporation headquartered in Norfolk, Va., with billions of dollars in annual revenues, has threatened to take our homes via eminent domain lawsuits against us. Norfolk Southern wants our homes for the sole purpose of increasing its profits from the expansion of an intermodal freight yard, which is located in our community. ERC on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfMkBG3rQqpNuTPytAAWV7A
ERC on Twitter: https://twitter.com/EnglewoodAction
