Neighborhoods

By choosing to build up instead of out, the MiCA developer created towers that are too tall for their context, which increases opposition to dense development.

Local aldermen say they were concerned about preserving parking for private cars, but advocates say the South Side needs more mobility options for the many residents who don't own them.

Some Streetsblog readers scoffed at a recent proposal for free CTA service. But making transit free, or at least cheaper for low-income Chicagoans, could have major societal benefits.

The intersection redesign isn't happening anytime soon, but new lighting is in the works.

The Home Zone was originally supposed to extend to 63rd, but instead it will stop at Cermak.

There are myriad reasons why 36 car parking spaces in a building with 124 households is a good number to shelter in Logan Square near the Blue Line.

Jeff Wegerson envisions a clever scheme by the CTA to speed up Chicago buses.

A proposed residential development that would have brought 50 mixed-bedroom apartments and 11 townhomes to an empty lot in Uptown has been stalled by 46th Ward Alderman James Cappleman and the Department of Planning and Development for being "too dense". The proposal is less dense than neighboring buildings, and the number of new households it proposes would server bolster the reason for spending $200 million to reconstruct the Wilson CTA station.

A police representative claims that the citations aren't just an excuse for stop-and-frisk.