Recent Streetsblog CHICAGO posts about Bridgeport

What’s the Fastest Way Around Chicago? That Depends, Says New Map

By Steven Vance | Jun 27, 2014 | 26 Comments

Researchers at the MIT Media Lab published an interactive map this week that shows a new way to measure access across Chicago via different transportation modes. Instead of assessing how far one can travel by a certain mode, like a previous online map has shown, or showing the cost of travel, this map looks solely […]

Cyclist Killed in Bridgeport Hit-and-Run, Driver Charged With Felony

By John Greenfield | Jun 2, 2014 | No Comments

View Larger Map The crash site from the driver’s perspective. A Bridgeport man has been charged with a felony after he allegedly killed a female bicyclist with his van, then fled the scene. The case appears to be the first Chicago bike fatality of 2014. Last Thursday at about 5:35 p.m., Suai Xie, 59, was […]

Hit-and-Run Drivers Killed Pedestrians in Englewood and Bridgeport on Friday

By John Greenfield | Jun 18, 2013 | 19 Comments

Last week two different people lost their lives to hit-and-run drivers, in two different South Side neighborhoods, on the same day. Both of the drivers are still at large. On Friday at about 3:40 a.m., a southbound motorist fatally struck Timothy Jones, 41, of the 200 block of South Sacramento, in the 6000 block of […]