Block Club Chicago

Streetsblog Chicago is a sustainable transportation news and advocacy website, not a publication that typically covers finance. So it's not really my role to opine on whether it was a smart fiscal decision for the City Council to approve an $830 million bond deal to pay for transportation infrastructure. But let's look at how the narrow 26-23 vote went down last Wednesday; some arguments against and for the financing by alders; and reactions from walk/bike/transit boosters.

Meanwhile, discussion of the neighborhood's El Paseo rails-to-trails proposal, shelved in 2022 by concerns it might speed up housing displacement, is starting again with a meeting this Wednesday.

While this itinerary detours several blocks onto Balmoral Avenue, next year that shouldn't be necessary.

Yes, the article was sensationalistic and inaccurate, and didn't quote anyone in the neighborhood who rides bikes. But when it comes to effective community input in POC neighborhoods, it had a point.

Regardless of the transportation mode, Black Chicagoans are much more likely to be detained by police than their white counterparts.

The development would have 179 housing units, and a whopping 220 car parking spots.