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Street Repairs Make It on 5th Ward PB Ballot; CTA and Bike Projects Don’t

By John Greenfield | May 3, 2013

Traditionally, Chicago aldermen choose to spend their discretionary “menu” funds on meat-and-potatoes infrastructure projects like street repaving, sidewalk repair, and streetlight replacement. This week, however, residents in four different wards are voting in participatory budgeting elections, helping to decide how their district’s $1.3 million in menu money will be spent. Three of the wards will […]

46th Ward Residents Can Vote for a Bike Boulevard on Leland

By John Greenfield | Apr 4, 2013 | 22 Comments

View Larger Map Looking east on the 1400 block of West Leland, just east of Clark. When Chicago Department of Transportation and the 47th Ward announced their proposal to create a “neighborhood greenway” on Berteau between Lincoln and Clark, I wondered out loud whether Leland, five blocks north, might be a better choice. Also called […]