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Chicago Policy

Driver destroys Ainslie Art Plaza, 10 more POP! Plazas across the city announced

Sharon Hoyer

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Bicycling

City seeks feedback on draft ten-year “We Will Chicago” plan including transportation goals

Courtney Cobbs

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Big support for protected bike lanes at Clark Street Crossroad planning workshop

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Beyond Chicagoland

Yup, ex-Vox editor Matthew Yglesias is wrong that Chicago is doomed – here’s why.

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Video shows CPD officers confronting, striking teen on bike and fleeing the scene

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Road widths aren’t to blame for Chicago’s racial disparities in speed cam ticketing

Igor Studenkov

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Chicago Suburbs

What it was like riding Metra the day the U.S. gun violence epidemic reached Highland Park

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Equity-focused Chicago Mobility Collaborative meeting takes place at inequitable time of day

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Dear CTA: Stop gaslighting us. Change “scheduled service” to better reflect actual service.

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Bus Transit

Alderpersons turn up the heat on CTA to explain how the agency will fix service gaps

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