Today’s Headlines for Friday, April 5
• After drivers killed 5 vulnerable road users on Pulaski in last 9 months, SW Collective and ATA launch survey to collect data and help address crisis (WGN)
April 5, 2024
Today’s Headlines for Wednesday, April 3
• Active Trans: Want to see motorists traveling at safer speeds, or legalizing the Idaho stop? Support a couple of key Illinois bills by filing 'witness slips.'"
April 3, 2024
Hit-and-run driver fatally struck CPS teacher Charles “Charlie” Mills, 56, on Pulaski, which is plagued with traffic violence
Mills was the fifth vulnerable road user killed on Pulaski in Chicago in the last nine months.
April 2, 2024
Today’s Headlines for Tuesday, April 2
• These Chicagoans traded their Ventra cards for car keys, and one made pottery about the experience (Crain's)
April 2, 2024
More from Ald. Reilly: To save the Clark dining district, I offered to pedestrianize parts of Kinzie and Dearborn, but Harry Caray’s declined
Reilly also promised to approve a permit for Clark if he's given the chance, and said the best strategy for saving the car-free district is for residents to lobby Mayor Johnson.
April 1, 2024
Today’s Headlines for Monday, April 1
• Speeding NB hit-and-run car driver fatally struck male pedestrian, 56, Sunday around 11:45 PM at 63rd/Pulaski, where traffic deaths are common (Sun-Times)
April 1, 2024
Alderman Reilly: Here’s the nitty gritty of how the ill-conceived plan to kill the Clark Street car-free dining district came about
Regarding a factually incorrect tweet he posted this week, Reilly admitted, "I was pretty fired up. I did go too far... No, I don't think the Chicago Federation of Labor muscled this through."
March 29, 2024
Today’s Headlines for Friday, March 29
• No concrete-separated bike lanes planned for S. Western bridge rehab; Community meeting W 4/3, 5:30-7:30 PM, 2800 S. Western
March 29, 2024
Giving the pedestrianized Clark Street dining district back to cars this summer would be a very foolish thing to do
Ald. Reilly says the car-free restaurant strip is not coming back this year, but here's why that would be a really bad idea.
March 27, 2024
Today’s Headlines for Wednesday, March 27
• 311 Complaints and fines fail to solve usual city winter woe – too many snow-packed sidewalks (Block Club)
March 27, 2024