The fact that two critical or fatal crashes took place on Ashland on the same day is not simply a coincidence -- street design played a role in these tragedies.
A hit-and-run van driver fatally struck Connie Mangrum, 52, Thursday morning as she walked in Englewood. Witnesses said the crash appeared to be intentional. According to police, at about 11:15 a.m. Mangrum was walking with Javonte Kirkland, 19, on the 5600 block of South Racine when the driver of a silver van, possibly a Dodge […]
Last year the department said new stations would largely be going to parts of town with few docks, but today they revealed an apparent change of plans.
The Englewood Line Nature Trail, a proposed two-mile elevated greenway, would run along an unused rail embankment between 58th and 59th streetsm from Hoyne to Wallace avenues.