Chicago Tribune, 5/5:
CTA veteran Dorval Carter to return from D.C. to run transit agency
Dorval Carter Jr., a former acting CTA president whose career in public transit in Chicago and Washington has spanned more than 30 years, will be named the transit agency's new leader Tuesday, officials said Monday.
Carter, who will become the first African-American CTA president, replaces Forrest Claypool, who has been CTA president since the beginning of the Emanuel administration in 2011. The mayor recently asked Claypool to become City Hall chief of staff during the second term.
Carter, who has worked since January as acting chief of staff to U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx, will require no learning curve on mega-projects that the CTA is either carrying out or hoping to begin soon with the help of federal and state funding.
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