Skip to Content
Streetsblog Chicago home
Streetsblog Chicago home
Log In

Sponsored by:

• More coverage of yesterday's Committee on Pedestrian and Traffic Safety meeting on improving bus service (WBBM)

WGN: 7 years in the making, Damen Green Line station to open August 5, in time for DNC

• SUV driver, 86, was apparently entering a parking lot when he fatally struck a male pedestrian near 89th/Loomis in Gresham (FOX)

• Speeding hit-and-run sedan driver critically injured male pedestrian in 2800 block of E. 95th in Calumet Heights community, witness performed CPR (ABC)

• CFD ambulance driver flew off the road Monday morning at 119th/Peoria in West Pullman (ABC)

• CTA: Downtown bus reroutes for summer 2024 events

• Metra $332M project replaces 22 bridges, including 11 on UP-N Line (Construction Equipment)

• "CTA and Metra are the best choices for music fans headed to Lollapalooza"

• Verified GoFundMe for dance instructor Jacob Heiss, severely injured on e-scooter by hit-and-run driver Friday around 5:30 PM at Taylor/I-94

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 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