Skip to Content
Streetsblog Chicago home
Streetsblog Chicago home
Log In

Sponsored by:

• Milwaukee Ave. location, where drivers killed Carla Aiello, 37 and Nick Parlingayan, 22, reopens after nearly 2 years of Metra construction (Block Club)

• Driver, 22, fatally struck person in the road Monday morning near 115th/Vincennes; investigators say victim may have been laying in street (ABC)

• Motorcycle rider died after fiery crash with car driver on Edens around 8:16 PM Saturday in southbound lanes of I-94 at Lake Avenue near Skokie (ABC)

• During traffic stop, driver of stolen car reversed, struck squad car, then hit 4 pedestrians, causing minor injuries, and 2 other cars, in Brighton Park (ABC)

• United Center owners planning $7B campus around arena with housing, music hall and more (Block Club)

• Oscar Meyer Wienermobile "hotdogger" escapes uninjured from rollover crash near Oak Brook, former home of McDonald's Hamburger University (Sun-Times)

• Metra teams up with U.S. army to help veterans find job openings that match their skillsets (FOX)

• Take the High Speed Rail Alliance's Summer 2024 Survey to share your opinions about fast train service

donate button

Did you appreciate this post? Please consider making a tax-deductible donation, to help keep Streetsblog Chicago's sustainable transportation news and advocacy articles paywall-free.

Stay in touch

Sign up for our free newsletter

More from Streetsblog Chicago

Some 100 people braved the rain to honor fallen cyclists on the 20th annual Chicago Ride of Silence

The event also drew attention to the need for safer street design, and for Chicago to follow peer cities' examples by lowering our default speed limit to 25 mph.

May 22, 2025

Bicycle youth: Quetzal Kilgore, 18, shares the experience of growing up (mostly) car-free in Chicago

"There's a good mix of time where you don't want your parents to drop you off, but you have to, because you don't have your own car," Quetzal said. "I never had that."

May 21, 2025

The right and wrong ways to write a postmortem about car-free Lincoln Avenue

Block Club's Alex V. Hernandez did a well-researched and illuminating article on the subject. Inside Publications' Peter Von Buol, not so much.

May 20, 2025
See all posts