Brian Hopkins

Unfortunately, a short-sighted neighborhood community group wants to kill the goose that laid the golden egg.

Reilly and Hopkins' also reaffirmed that chicagoans who are opposed are largely white folks like the ones who overwhelmingly make up the aldermen's own constituencies.

"The park is a precious commodity, and green space should not be displaced for road expansion," said one attendee.

Streeterville doesn't have tons of green space, but the city is planning to carve up a small park across the street from the MCA to make room for a turn lane.

The corridor will eventually stretch from Cortland and Ridgeland to Cortland and Ashland.

Despite a limited, gerrymandered service area, officials say they're optimistic that the tech will catch on.

The cams have been proven to reduce crashes, and support from locals gives the city political cover to implement this often-unpopular technology.

Banishing motor vehicles from Lake Shore Drive brings out a wide demographic of cyclists, including folks who don't feel comfortable pedaling on Chicago's car-centric streets.

Streetsblog reader Deni Mayer contacted us yesterday about an unusual car parking conundrum is his neighborhood. Last summer he and his wife moved into a condo on the 100 block of West Delaware in the Gold Coast, between Clark and LaSalle and just west of Washington Square Park. It’s a narrow one-way westbound street, and the east half of the block has townhouses on the north side of the street. Each of these homes has two parking garages and driveways that cross the sidewalk.