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Bicycling

Here are 16 alders who voted to allow deadly speeds, and crash cases in their wards.

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Beyond Chicagoland

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

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Ordinance introduced to allow towing bikeway blockers, speed cam vote gets deferred

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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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Chicago Policy

These 16 alderpersons narrowly won the committee vote to let people drive at deadly speeds

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Concrete-protected lanes are coming to Clark St. from Irving to Montrose, maybe further

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CPD has leads on the Ja’lon James case, GoFundMe launched to support family

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Ja’lon James, 11, struck in N. Lawndale is 3rd Chicago child killed in 2 weeks

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Wilberto Rivera, 67, died 2 weeks after being struck on North Ave. in Humboldt Park

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LaSpata said bikeway blockage 311 service requests can result in tickets. CDOT denies this.