Recent Streetsblog CHICAGO posts about GOGO Charters

5,000 bikes, helmets, and locks being given away by city (Sun-Times) Mayor Lightfoot proposes gift cards to help residents pay for gas and transit cards (NPR) Here’s who is eligible for the city’s gas and public transit cards (NBC 5) Podcast Arrested Mobility podcast highlights the criminalization of riding bikes on sidewalks Deal to sell […]

ATA: Instead of a gas tax holiday, make transit cheaper, build bus and bike lanes Rather than initiatives to help reduce car-dependency, Lightfoot to announce proposal to make gas cheaper (Fox) Lightfoot’s 11th Ward alder appointee Nicole Lee formerly worked as a consultant for BP oil (Block Club) Surprise! Former anti-bike columnist Mark Konkol is […]

Hit-and-run driver fatally struck female pedestrian, 70, in 6000 block of West Grand (ABC) 2 airlifted with serious injuries after driver strikes semi in northwest Indiana (NWI Times) Friends of entertainment lawyer Linda Mensch, 70, call for action, arrest in deadly Garfield Park hit-and-run (NBC) Metra joins fight against proposed freight merger that would impact […]

More coverage of plan to more than double number of guards on CTA (Tribune, ABC, Block Club) CTA operator union prez calls guards “window dressing,” wants return of conductors (Sun-Times) Driver, 25, dead after speeding, striking guardrail and pole on DLSD near 51st (Fox) Driver ran stop sign, striking another vehicle and causing it to […]

IG report finds Black drivers are subject to “overwhelming disparity” in police stops (Block Club) Chicago Business Journal looks at potential for Red Line extension to bring housing, retail to Far South Side Neighbors cite increased car traffic as a reason to not have a casino at the 78 development (Block Club) Church members mourn […]

Chicago mask mandate for most public settings will end 2/28, but masks will be required on transit (NBC) 2 people were critically injured in an alcohol-related crash on I-57 near 100th Street (ABC) CPD: 2 men punched woman in face and stole her cellphone on Blue Line near Cicero stop (Fox) Man charged with resisting […]

Voters should decide on Chicago’s new ward map, Latino Caucus and independent group say (Block Club) $1.4 million settlement approved for mother of 13-month-old Dillon Harris, killed during police chase (Block Club) After 2nd shooting outside The Point, Wicker Park merchants push for more policing of Milwaukee Ave. (Block Club) Aurora City Council set to […]

Chicago saw 37K hit-and-runs in 2021, but just 306 arrests. Why do police solve so few of these crimes? (CBS) Slain teen Sincere Cole, 15, lost mother in 2019 when she was struck at 69th Red stop as guard stood by (Sun-Times) Deceased person found on Metra Electric District tracks on 51st Street in Hyde […]

“Vacancy fraud” state bill would punish landlords who avoid renting out empty storefronts (Block Club) Driver dies after car struck by Amtrak train, dragged, caught fire near Deerfield station (CBS) Driver cited after failing to yield while turning at Monroe/DLSD, injuring 6, including 4 kids, in another car (ABC) Fire Engine rolled over after crash […]

After years of lobbying by South Side transit advocates, CTA is poised to make 31st Street bus permanent As Motor Fuel Tax freeze debated, group says IL has 3rd-most structurally deficient bridges in nation (Capitol Fax) Expressway shooting crackdown leads to 20 arrests, dozens of license plate cameras and boost in patrols (Block Club) Car […]

Concerns — and campaign plans — mount as Chicago’s remap battle drags on (Block Club) Hit-and-run driver injured man, 41, in Chesterton walking in street because sidewalk was unplowed (NWI Times) Tommy Howe, 24, is missing after wandering into forest preserve following car crash in north suburbs (News Nation) Dan Ryan southbound lanes blocked Wednesday […]