Recent Streetsblog CHICAGO posts about Englewood

The Divvy Perimeter Ride: Checking Out Bike-Share in Outlying Communities

By John Greenfield | May 22, 2015 | 9 Comments

[This piece also ran in Checkerboard City, John’s transportation column in Newcity magazine, which hits the streets on Wednesday evenings.] This year’s Divvy bike-share expansion, beefing up the system from 300 docking stations to 476, has moved at warp speed. As of yesterday, 168 of the new stations have been installed since mid-April; The remaining […]

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 […]

Englewood Flyover, Now Under Construction, Will Reduce Metra Delays

By Steven Vance | May 3, 2013 | 27 Comments

The Englewood Flyover is a bridge construction project near 63rd and State Streets that will eventually elevate the tracks for 78 weekday Metra Rock Island trains, so they don’t cross tracks for 60 daily freight and Amtrak trains at the same grade. Work began last September, and construction this weekend will close the Dan Ryan Expressway […]

Can Transportation Options Energize Englewood?

By John Greenfield | Apr 22, 2013 | 15 Comments

[This article also appears in Checkerboard City, John Greenfield’s weekly column in Newcity magazine, which hits the streets on Wednesday evenings.] Most Chicagoans associate Englewood with poverty and crime, but local advocates and activists see it as a neighborhood with untapped potential, with excellent access to public transportation being one of the keys to its […]