Neighborhoods

The Chicago Tribune recently reported that the Obama Foundation has proposed pedestrianizing stretches of the highway-like roads that run through Jackson Park, the future home of Barack Obama’s presidential library, to create a museum campus. The tone of the article, and quotes from some community members, suggest that this change would cause strangle transportation on the Southeast Side.

Alder. Deb Mell canceled the car traffic diverter, but some residents want the rest of the Manor Greenway proposal scrapped.

The ex-CDOT chief says the feds' Data-Driven Approaches to Crime and Traffic Safety model, which calls for targeting crash and crime "hot spots" could save lives and help prevent police profiling

Now that the flyover is a done deal, neighbors are pushing for the gaps created by demolitions to be filled in with quality transit-oriented development and other creative uses of the new open space.

Update 5/30/18, 2:15 PM: Today Alderman Hopkins provided documentation that indicates that he asked the 14th Police District to hold a targeted enforcement event on January 19, 2017, to ticket motorists for dangerous driving, but the police took it upon themselves to focus on ticketing bicyclists instead. Read the full story, including the correspondence from Hopkins, on this Twitter thread. 

The issue is complicated by the fact that Chicago's underserved neighborhoods seem to be disproportionately impacted by serious and fatal crashes.

While the alderman is right to help constituents navigate the confusing process of contesting red light tickets, he's wrong to characterize people who blow lights as innocent victims.

The Englewood Line Nature Trail, a proposed two-mile elevated greenway, would run along an unused rail embankment between 58th and 59th streetsm from Hoyne to Wallace avenues.

The push to convert a parking lot next to the Logan Square station into a 100-percent-affordable TOD is picking up steam.