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FWIW, Chicago Has Dropped From #1 to #6 in Bicycling’s City Rankings Police Chase Alleged Mercedes Thief, Resulting in Gold Coast Taxi Crash (CBS) Metra to Test Reverse-Commute Service in Lake County (Crain’s) MD-W Passengers Discuss Getting Stranded by Morning Switch Problems (NBC) Bike and Walk to School Day Has Special Significance in Illinois This […]

Family and Friends Remember Boy and 2 Men Killed During Englewood Police Chase (Tribune) Men Fleeing Oak Forest Pizzeria in Car After Skipping Out on Check Injure 2 Employees (Tribune) Delivery Drivers Are Causing Traffic Jams by Disobeying “No Stopping” Signs (CBS) Active Trans Discusses Complaints About LFT Separation, Calls for Eliminating Street Crossings Plan […]

Alberto Bocanegra, 39, Killed After Confronting Driver Who Struck Woman on Group Ride (CBS, ABC) Boy, 15, Turns Himself in for Hit-and-Run Crash That Killed Cyclist, 67, Near Trail (CBS) John Talks With CBS Chicago About the Recent Bike Crash and Injury Epidemic Cop Endangers People By Driving the Wrong-Way Down Streets to Write Tickets […]

Tribune Editorial: No Metra Fare Hike Is Good, But Spending Cuts Are Needed Police Searching for Suspect in LaSalle Blue Line Robbery (Fox) Officer Wouldn’t Cite Driver Who Struck Me — What Should I Have Done Differently? (The Chainlink) Little Village Warehouse Plan Moves Forward Despite Concerns About Truck Traffic (Curbed) Luxury Apartments Along the […]

Schwieterman: Rahm’s Departure Likely Means End of the O’Hare Express Project (Tribune) 2 Killed in Niles Crash Involving Cook County Sheriff’s Officer (ABC) Male Cyclist, 25, Critically Injured After Being Doored and Struck by SUV Driver in Pilsen Man on Bike, 63, Suffers Critical Injuries in Arlington Heights Dooring (Sun-Times) Man Charged in Hit-and-Run Crash […]

LSD Is Reduced From 8 to 4 Lanes for Repaving, Chicago Doesn’t Grind to a Halt (Tribune) Driver Fatally Struck Jake Brummitt, 18, in South Barrington (Sun-Times) Man Charged in Stabbing at 95th Street Red Line Station (CBS) Metra Trains Snarled at Union Station After Signal Problems (Tribune) Feds Warn Amtrak Not to Discriminate Against […]

After 2nd Crash at Madison/Halsted, Sun-Times Says Chicago Is Not Bike-Friendly Tribune Editorial: Chicago Needs to Start Planning for a Driverless Future The Tribune Looks Into Beale & Burke’s Proposal to Cap Number of Ride-Share Drivers Man Charged With Aggravated DUI in Fatal Schaumburg Crash (ABC7) Woman Stabbed Several Times Near Clark/Division Red Line Entrance (ABC) […]

After Trucker Killed Cyclist, Bike Advocates Call for More Side Guards (Sun-Times) …Others Blame the Tragedy on Bottleneck Caused by Construction Site (CBS) Driver Who Fatally Struck Lorenzo Bryant, 37, Wanted on Homicide Charges (Sun-Times) Active Trans Releases Recommendations for Fixing Logan/Western Curbed Checks Out the Car2Go Pilot Fast Facts About the CTA (CBS) Active Trans‘ […]

Emanuel Announces $10M Overhaul of Riverwalk From State Street to the Lake (Tribune) Protesters Took Over LSD, Streets of Lakeview During Anti-Violence March (Tribune) Gazette Chicago Gloats Over the Fact that the Ashland BRT Is Indefinitely Back-Burnered After Death of Luster Jackson, Support for Protected Bike Lanes on Stony (Block Club) Ex-Forest Preserve Worker Indicted […]

Activists Discuss Plans to Take Over N. Lake Shore Drive Next Week (WTTW) Nearly a Third of City Property Taxes Is Diverted Into TIFs (Tribune) Lawmakers Question Possible Conflicts of Interest in Tollway Contracts (Tribune) Driver Who Killed Alyssa Lendino, 16, in Wheeling Was Fleeing Another Crash (Tribune) CCME: Ambulance Driver in Fatal Bellwood Crash […]

Victim of Cragin Hit-and-Run Identified as Longtime Local Florist Alberto Zavala (ABC) Blue Line Trains Delayed by Anti-Theft Device Thrown on the Tracks at Logan (Tribune) 606 & Low Line Proposal Counted as 2 of 9 “Linear Parks That Transformed Cities” (Curbed) A Roundup of Recently Installed Public Art (Curbed) Groups Are Using Active Trans […]