John Greenfield

• "One Month Into Trump’s Immigration Blitz, Chicago Escalates Its Fight Back" (Block Club)

This post is sponsored by Keating Law Offices.

Yesterday, I visited the site where a northbound minivan driver fatally struck Juslene Akeza, 4, as she was crossing Talman Avenue (2630 W.) westbound on the north side of Granville Avenue (6200 W.) in West Ridge. That tragedy happened along the recently installed Granville Avenue Neighborhood Greenway. But as I noted in my writeup of the crash, the new east-west street design was basically irrelevant to the motorist's failure to hit the brakes in time, the reason why police cited them for failure to reduce speed.

• Don't mess with Illinois! "Texas National Guard arrives in the Chicago area" (Tribune)

Tragically, a 72-year-old minivan driver fatally struck Juslene Akeza, 4, as she was crossing the street last Wednesday during the evening rush in the West Ridge neighborhood. The motorist was cited for negligent driving.

• Feds claim ICE agent shot driver, 30, because agents were "rammed by [drivers] and boxed in by 10 cars" near Pershing/Kedzie (Block Club)

The USDOT announced it is blocking $2.1 million in previously approved federal funding for the Red Line Extension and the Red & Purple Modernization Project.

• "RTA lowered the projected 2026 fiscal cliff facing mass transit by over $500M today, but the deficit is set to rise again in 2027 to nearly $800M." (Crain's) 

• "Hundreds Protest Downtown As Trump Says Troops Are Coming To Chicago 'Very Soon'" (Block Club)

Last December, the Chicago Tribune Editorial Board blamed the diagonal Milwaukee Avenue bikeway for traffic jams created by car commuters fleeing Kennedy Expressway construction. "[On] many of the former alternate routes, such as... Milwaukee [the Chicago Department of Transportation has] reduced... vehicular capacity by adding bike lanes," they stated. "Those roads don’t offer any meaningful relief from a clogged expressway anymore."