Recent Streetsblog CHICAGO posts about Gentrification

Today’s Headlines for Tuesday, March 24

By John Greenfield | May 24, 2022 | No Comments

Chicago Casino set for final city vote Wednesday after committee OKs Bally’s plan (Block Club) Why is Chicago’s hit-and-run arrest record so much lower than New York or LA’s? (NBC) Dump tuck diver killed after being struck by MD-N train on private road with no RR gates or lights (ABC) I-294 pileup crash involving at […]

Detail from a proposed redesign on the Milwaukee/Kilbourn bridge. Image: Philip Santos

2 cyclists were killed near Milwaukee/Kilbourn bridge. Let’s rebuild it to make it safer.

By Sharon Hoyer | May 23, 2022 | No Comments

Engineer Philip Santos notes that upgrading the area below the bridge would be more expensive and challenging, but well worth the trouble. “There have been two fatalities here. If you’re going to fix a bridge, do it right.”

The unveiling of Lucy Gonzalez Parsons Apartments on Friday. Photo: Erin Rensink

Lucy Gonzalez Parsons Apartments affordable TOD: an experiment in re-integration

By John Greenfield | May 23, 2022 | No Comments

As I’ve said before, if housing affordability in Chicago’s swiftly gentrifying Logan Square neighborhood is like a sinking ship, the new all-affordable transit-oriented development that opened next to the eponymous Blue Line station last Friday is like a lifeboat. It provides low-income and working-class longtime with an opportunity to weather the storm. Streetsblog Chicago strongly […]

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Today’s Headlines for Monday, May 23

By John Greenfield | May 23, 2022 | No Comments

Committee on Public Safety approved Lightfoot’s proposal to lower curfew from 11 to 10 PM (Block Club) Ray Basulto may lose leg after hit-and-run pickup driver pinned him against a car Saturday in Irving Park (Block Club) 3 Injured in multi-vehicle crash at Huron/LaSalle in River North (NBC) Boy, 14, charged with murder after he […]

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Talking Headways Podcast: A ‘Communities First’ Infrastructure Alliance

By Jeff Wood | May 20, 2022 | No Comments

On May 18, the White House released a technical-assistance guide to help communities access resources made available in the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.

The 5300 block of West Irving Park Road. Image: Google Maps

Motorcycle rider fatally struck Timothy Kast, 46, crossing 5-lane street in Portage Park

By John Greenfield | May 20, 2022 | No Comments

Kast was the first on-street chicago pedestrian fatality this year. This was the second fatal pedestrian-motorcyclist crash in Chicago within about eight months.

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Today’s Headlines for Friday, May 20

By John Greenfield | May 20, 2022 | No Comments

State, CTA to seek $400 million from feds for Blue Line, I-290 work (Crain’s) Efforts to make transit-oriented development equitable starting to pay off, Chicago officials say (WTTW) Man, 48, killed by motorcyclist, who was critically injured, while crossing 5-lane Irving Park (FOX) 2 killed, 8 injured in shooting outside Chicago Ave. Red stop, train […]

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An Interstate Across America — For Everyone Besides Drivers, That Is — Would Pay For Itself in No Time

By Kea Wilson | May 20, 2022 | No Comments

A continuous cross-continental active transportation trail would pay for itself in less than five years in visitor spending alone, a new analysis argues.

View from inside a bus using the center-running lanes on Columbus Avenue in Boston. Photo: John Greenfield

Is this the beginning of prioritizing buses on Chicago’s streets?

By Courtney Cobbs | May 19, 2022 | No Comments

Better Streets for Buses meetings have started, and ELPC calls for five bus rapid transit routes in five years.

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Today’s Headlines for Thursday, May 19

By John Greenfield | May 19, 2022 | No Comments

Coverage of last night’s Ride of Silence honoring fallen cyclists (ABC, WGN) Block Club looks at potential bus priority streets from the city’s Better Streets for Buses initiative 4 injured in crash at Addison/Kimball in Irving Park after speeding driver runs red light (ABC) CTA bus driver involved in crash at Lawrence/Marine in Uptown Wednesday […]