Today’s Headlines for Friday, May 27
| | No Comments- Chicago and suburban Cook County have moved into High COVID Community Level (City of Chicago)
- Lonely Planet has published a guide to visiting Chicago on a budget and getting around by L
- Local public health officials advise residents mask up on transit and in other public spaces (Sun-Times)
- The South Side’s beloved dancing crossing guard is facing eviction (Block Club)
- The Sun-Times has released a feature story/photo essay on the community in Rogers Park
- Oak Park coalition aims to get everyone housed (Crain’s)
- Man charged in deadly Clinton Blue Line station stabbing (CBS 2)
- Metra restores full Saturday service on seven lines, adjusts UP Northwest schedule (Trains)
- Retired Army colonel plans 1,700-mile bicycle trip to honor soldiers who died under his command (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
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Four Reasons that Pedestrian Deaths Just Hit a 40-Year High
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Pedestrian death rates climbed to a 40-year high in 2021, but experts say the factors driving the national traffic violence crisis emerged far earlier.
Today’s Headlines for Thursday, May 26
| | No Comments- Casino, including road widening, approved after Lightfoot screams “You are a liar!” at opposing alder (Block Club)
- Despite being presented with evidence that curfews don’t work, Council approves 10 PM curfew (Block Club)
- The Reader looks at why stricter curfews are the wrong approach to reducing violence
- Why did it take CPD five years to arrest hit-and-run driver who killed cyclist Francisco Cruz, 58? (CBS)
- Bernardo Gomez, 26, died after being kicked in the head by a boy, 14, on the Cicero Green platform (Sun-Times)
- After someone smashed a bottle on a man’s head on Red Line, bystanders stepped in to stop attack (NBC)
- Gas leak at 30 E. Lake in the Loop causes major CTA delays (NBC)
- What generosity! News outlets give free campaign ads to traffic jam creator Willie Wilson (NBC, ABC, Block Club)
- Letter: Municipalities should invoice Wilson for taxpayer-funded police and traffic-control services (Tribune)
- Metra sends staff to homes next to UP-N to listen to concerns, residents complain Metra’s not listening (WGN)
- Neighborhood greenway is coming to Erie between Damen and Noble in West Town (Block Club)
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Possible Chicago public restroom pilot could help improve access to public space
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Advocates for more public restrooms for Chicagoans will be heartened by signs of movement to address the problem.
Three South Side pedestrian crash fatality cases from earlier this year
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Earlier this month SBC cofounder Steven Vance launched a new Chicago Crash Browser, which pulls data from the city's data portal, checking for new reports every hour.
Today’s Headlines for Wednesday, May 25
| | No Comments- Here are the new rules for minors at Millennium Park (Block Club)
- 1 person killed, 11 injured in multi-vehicle crash Tuesday morning on I-294 near Willow Road (NBC)
- Woman, 27, shot in arm near 95th/Dan Ryan Red Line station (NBC)
- CPD releases photos of suspect in fatal stabbing of James R. Parsons IV, 43, found on Blue train near Clinton (FOX)
- Man pleads guilty to setting unoccupied CTA van on fire during 2020 civil unrest in Loop (Sun-Times)
- Contract with one of CTA’s security guard contractors sheds light on what guards are supposed to be doing (CBS)
- Willie Wilson gives away groceries and plans yet another traffic-clogging, air-polluting gas giveaway (Block Club)
- 27th Ward survey on how to use $2.9M, including potential walk/bike/transit improvements (Block Club)
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Chicago transpo advocates and experts call for better infrastructure to address the US bike death epidemic (NPR)
- Letter to Sun-Times: Cyclists endanger pedestrians on Sheridan in Edgewater. Here’s what we should actually do.
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Awful Highway Expansions in Denver and Portland are Halted
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State transportation agencies halted proposals to widen freeways in Denver and Portland amid rising costs, lawsuits, and stark questions about the projects’ destructive effects on the environment.
¿Cómo llegan las bicicletas de Chicago al otro lado del mundo?
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La directora de la Escuela de Enfermería de Bwindi habló sobre cómo las bicicletas donadas por la tienda comunitaria Working Bikes de Chicago ayudan a empoderar a las mujeres jóvenes en el suroeste de Uganda.
How do bicycles from Chicago’s Working Bikes community shop end up across the world?
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The director of Bwindi Nursing School discussed how bicycles donated by Chicago’s Working Bikes community shop help empower young women in southwest Uganda.
Today’s Headlines for Tuesday, May 24
| | No Comments- Chicago Casino set for final city vote Wednesday after committee OKs Bally’s plan (Block Club)
- Why is Chicago’s hit-and-run arrest record so much lower than New York or LA’s? (NBC)
- Dump tuck diver killed after being struck by MD-N train on private road with no RR gates or lights (ABC)
- I-294 pileup crash involving at least 8 vehicles leaves 2 injured; SB traffic blocked at Willow Road (ABC)
- Man visiting Chicago who was struck by hit-and-run driver on Mag Mile loses both legs (NBC)
- James R. Parsons, 43, found fatally stabbed last night on Blue Line near Clinton station (NBC)
- Water Tower Place has been a key anchor of Michigan Ave. Can it be saved? (WBEZ)
- Let’s make sure city officials use available funds to build a protected bike lane network (Active Trans)
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2 cyclists were killed near Milwaukee/Kilbourn bridge. Let’s rebuild it to make it safer.
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Engineer Philip Santos notes that upgrading the area below the bridge would be more expensive and challenging, but well worth the trouble. “There have been two fatalities here. If you’re going to fix a bridge, do it right.”