CTA State/Lake - painted?

I noticed last week while changing trains that State/Lake has a lot of fresh paint. Is this a result of spiffing up prior to the NATO event? Just curious. It was a bit shabby earlier.

A random thing possibly, likely just needed a little sprucing up. The Indiana station on the Green line was also getting a fresh coat of paint when I rode through there today...

Hmm.

Routine maintenance without some big political pretext?

If they keep this up, people might come to expect it.

Perhaps. But if CTA is really trying to change their image, this wouldn't be a bad place to start...

The minor facelift projects at the State/Lake & Indiana stations, among others, were part of the "renew crew" program, which wrapped up recently...