Recent Streetsblog CHICAGO posts about Local Businesses

The Garfield Green Line station after the Garfield Gateway rehab project. About a third of the labor was done by workers from low-income communities. Photo: CTA

CTA, peer transit agencies urge Biden administration to end local hiring ban

By Igor Studenkov | Mar 4, 2021 | No Comments

Reagan-era legislation prohibits transit agencies from favoring local firms and workers for infrastructure projects. Lifting the ban could provide new opportunities.

Protected bike lane on Chicago Avenue in Evanston. Image: Courtney Cobbs

From ATA’s Suburban Action Week: How to win bike-friendly roads in the ‘burbs

By Sharon Hoyer | Feb 25, 2021 | No Comments

"A lot of these projects last through multiple administrations. If advocacy groups can step up it really helps the project momentum.”

Lincoln Yards planners say they hope to improve non-car connections to the site

By Imelda March | Feb 23, 2021 | No Comments

Restoring bus service on Elston and Clybourn avenues would be one way to improve connectivity.

Rendering of the proposed development, which would squander the land on 834 parking spots.

DPD denies approval for car-centric 6 Corners Project that is “significantly overparked”

By John Greenfield | Feb 18, 2021 | No Comments

The proposal called for a staggering 834 parking spaces, with most of the land gobbled up by surface parking.

The most recent rendering of One Central. Image: Gensler Architect

The Tribune is right: One Central transit hub doesn’t yet deserve a $6.5B subsidy

By John Greenfield and AJ LaTrace | Feb 15, 2021 | No Comments

More likely the transit hub is something that Landmark added to the project as an excuse to have Illinois pay for capping the Metra tracks to provide a platform for the development.

Ald. Martin kyboshes autocentric supermarket planned for a transit-friendly site

By John Greenfield | Feb 11, 2021 | No Comments

The area needs a land use that supports local businesses and makes the area more pedestrian- and bike-friendly, rather than an "anti-transit-oriented development" that undermine those goals.

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