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Women from the Bwindi Women Bicycle Enterprise Shop in front of a container of bikes. Photo: BWBES

How do bicycles from Chicago’s Working Bikes community shop end up across the world?

By Ruth Rosas | May 24, 2022 | No Comments

The director of Bwindi Nursing School discussed how bicycles donated by Chicago’s Working Bikes community shop help empower young women in southwest Uganda.

The unveiling of Lucy Gonzalez Parsons Apartments on Friday. Photo: Erin Rensink

Lucy Gonzalez Parsons Apartments affordable TOD: an experiment in re-integration

By John Greenfield | May 23, 2022 | No Comments

As I’ve said before, if housing affordability in Chicago’s swiftly gentrifying Logan Square neighborhood is like a sinking ship, the new all-affordable transit-oriented development that opened next to the eponymous Blue Line station last Friday is like a lifeboat. It provides low-income and working-class longtime with an opportunity to weather the storm. Streetsblog Chicago strongly […]

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Recent Streetsblog CHICAGO posts about Events

How do bicycles from Chicago’s Working Bikes community shop end up across the world?

Lucy Gonzalez Parsons Apartments affordable TOD: an experiment in re-integration

Shared Mobility Action Agenda aims to make non-private-car modes handy for all by 2030

Divvy launches scooters and new pricing, but some members aren’t happy with the latter

Banasiak, Duckworth, and Moeller honored at ATA awards reception