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By
Payton Chung
9:02 AM CDT on July 23, 2014
- “Sacrifice Parking” For Parkland At Montrose Beach? Moss Design Makes Newsworthy Comment (Tribune)
- MPC Prez: Sky Really Is Falling On Transportation Funding (Crain’s)
- Ald. Reilly Wants To Restrict Segways to E. Randolph Bike Lane (Chicagoist)
- Act Like You Own The Place: Millennium Station Retail For Sale (Crain’s)
- Overnight Construction On Red Line Will Result In Overnight Construction Noise (DNA)
- Local 11-Year-Old Replaces 10-Year-Old’s Stolen Bike (Beverly Review)
- Heritage & Police Recover Stolen Bike On Customer’s Behalf (Heritage)
- Kickstarter Would Fund Silly Ads Aboard CTA (RedEye)
- Ten Simple Pleasures For CTA Riders (RedEye)
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Payton Chung is Editor at Large of Streetsblog USA. He first addressed a city council about smart growth in 1996, accidentally authored Chicago's inclusionary housing law, and sees the promises and perils of planning every day as a resident of "beautiful as well as sanitary" Washington, D.C.
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