John Greenfield

• Block Club: "Mayor Delays Final Vote On 2025 Budget"

• "Sterling Bay’s Marcey Street Development Still Stalled After Heated City Council Exchange" (Block Club)

See the City of Evanston's webpage for this project, including Tuesday's meeting presentation and display boards, here.

• Gov. Pritzker appoints former Chicago transportation chief Gia Biagi to head IDOT (Tribune)

Check out Part 2: Lincoln Square, Irving Park, and Albany Park here.

• Block Club: "Red Line Extension Zoning Changes Head To City Council For Final Vote"

Howdy, Streetsblog Chicago readers! We couldn't ask for a better day to kick off this publication's now-annual Bike Lane Fest series than this lovely mid-December day with weather in the upper 40s Farenheit. (Let's not think too hard about whether climate change is playing a role.)

• Driver fatally struck Saul Hernandez, 37, Sunday around 4:55 on NB I-53 south of Lake Cook Road in Palatine (ABC)

• RTA: "Last chance for public comment on 2025 budget and 5-year capital program"

Yesterday I discussed the brouhaha over a proposal to extend the two-way protected bike lane on Evanston's Chicago Avenue south about two miles to the city of Chicago border. A total of 62 merchants and "avid cyclists" signed two different letters opposing the new bikeway because it would involve converting 66 of the corridor's 250 car parking spaces – only about a quarter of them. However, more than 250 business people and residents have signed another letter from the Evanston Transit Alliance in favor of the initiative.