Avondale

On a frigid #GivingTuesday, the Active Transportation Alliance held its annual member party to celebrate the organization’s 2024 advocacy wins, and announce priorities for the year ahead. Well over 100 members gathered in the cavernous Revolution Brewing taproom – fittingly situated along new curb-protected bike lanes on Kedzie Avenue in Avondale. Attendees mingled for the first hour, sipping beers and scarfing down pizza from Dimo’s and chicken from Nando’s Peri Peri. Full racks in the coat-and-bike room proved that cold-weather cycling is alive and well in Chicago.

Rolling on the river provided a fresh perspective on Near North Side and downtown walk/bike/transit facilities.

"It is beyond frustrating that a young, healthy woman with health coverage will be indebted for a crash that she was completely innocent in," wrote Betzel's girlfriend.

While this stretch of Kimball is a popular north-south bike route, and was previously highlighted on the city of Chicago's bike map as a recommended route, it currently has no bikeway treatment.

According to the CPD, motorcyclist Zachary Konecki was arrested during this spring's Black Lives Matter protests for a similar attack from his motorcycle a couple miles up the road from the 2018 assault.

The victim was at least the seventh female or gender-nonconforming cyclist critically injured or killed by a right-turning trucker in Chicago since 2016.

West was killed about two weeks after another driver critically injured a five-year-old boy in an Avondale crosswalk.

A young father who was transporting his daughters on a cargo bike says the driver nearly struck them seconds before the crash.

By choosing to build up instead of out, the MiCA developer created towers that are too tall for their context, which increases opposition to dense development.