Auburn Gresham

The streetscape project on 79th Street in the Auburn Gresham neighborhood, including a possible curb-protected bike lane treatment on a couple blocks of Halsted.

The victim, who residents said was waiting for a ride to work, was the 16th on-street Chicago pedestrian fatality this year.

The planned Auburn Park station in the Auburn-Gresham community has been in the works for over a decade, and advocacy for it by local residents has gone on even longer than that.

The transit access for the three locations in Auburn Gresham, Austin, and Englewood ranges from petty good to excellent.

A silver lining of the pandemic is that while Metra schedules are light, the railroad can get a jump on construction projects.

While the current station design is too car-oriented, it does include a pedestrian plaza and plentiful bike parking.

Police are searching for the motorist who struck and killed Linnes Walker, 55, in the Auburn Gresham neighborhood last week. In the early evening of December 28, Walker, of the 7500 block of South May, walked to nearby Colony Food & Liquors, 7555 South Racine, which he usually visited twice a day, ABC reported. When the store didn’t have the item Walker was looking for, he headed down the street to another shop, according to Colony’s manager.