Recent Streetsblog CHICAGO posts about Walking

Detail from a proposed redesign on the Milwaukee/Kilbourn bridge. Image: Philip Santos

2 cyclists were killed near Milwaukee/Kilbourn bridge. Let’s rebuild it to make it safer.

By Sharon Hoyer | May 23, 2022 | No Comments

Engineer Philip Santos notes that upgrading the area below the bridge would be more expensive and challenging, but well worth the trouble. “There have been two fatalities here. If you’re going to fix a bridge, do it right.”

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 […]

The 5300 block of West Irving Park Road. Image: Google Maps

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Recent Streetsblog CHICAGO posts about Walking

2 cyclists were killed near Milwaukee/Kilbourn bridge. Let’s rebuild it to make it safer.

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

Motorcycle rider fatally struck Timothy Kast, 46, crossing 5-lane street in Portage Park

Driver who killed Concepcion Lopez, 82, in West Ridge threw object over wall, was DUI tested

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

Left-turning van driver who failed to yield killed Berta Arroyo Salgado, 73, in West Town