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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
Today’s Headlines for Wednesday, May 21
• "The Straight Dope" columnist and early Red Line Extension opponent Ed Zotti takes a deep dive into the RLE's funding, calling it "a $5.75B gamble." (Crain's)
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
Today’s Headlines for Tuesday, May 20
• Op-ed: CEOs Chicagoland Chamber and Harris Poll: "Our survey shows Cook County residents want transit funded – but not with new taxes" (Tribune)
May 20, 2025
Turning trucker allegedly disobeyed signal and fatally struck man, 44, next to Juarez High in Pilsen
Tragically, a semi truck driver reportedly disobeyed his signal while making a right turn, and ran over and killed a 44-year-old man, last Friday afternoon next to Benito Juarez High School in Pilsen.
May 19, 2025
Today’s Headlines for Monday, March 19
• Southbound semi driver fatally struck man, 44, Friday around noon in crosswalk at 21st/Ashland in Pilsen (WGN)
May 19, 2025
An intersection redesign advocates pitched years ago might have prevented the latest serious bike injury crash on Wrightwood Avenue
A driver fatally struck Ron Mendoza, 43, at Wrightwood/Pulaski in 2023. Another motorist seriously injured a boy, 16, Thursday at Wrightwood/Cicero.
May 16, 2025
Today’s Headlines for Friday, March 16
• "Safety reforms could be coming for Chicagoland transit, but funding still up in the air" (Capitol News Illinois)
May 16, 2025
Allegedly drunk hit-and-run SUV driver struck and killed a man, 76 Tuesday night in Chicago Lawn
Tragically, a motorist in an SUV fatally struck a senior citizen last Tuesday in the Chicago Lawn neighborhood and fled the scene.
May 16, 2025
Ald. Moore insists that CTA board members who oppose Mayor Johnson’s prez pick, the alder’s ex-COS, would be “backbiting snakes”
"He's a cold-hearted snake... he don't play by rules"
May 15, 2025
