Work Has Started on the Leland Avenue Greenway in Uptown
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After several years of delay and significant design changes, CDOT has finally started work on the Uptown bikeway.
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Let’s Not Use Sidewalk Bike Lanes as Defensive Architecture
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CDOT is planning to install bike lanes on the sidewalks of Uptown's Lawrence and Wilson viaducts. It appears that this is a strategy to prevent future homeless encampments
The New Wilson ‘L’ Platform Will Be Massive – The Widest in the System
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This morning the CTA celebrated the completion of more than 50 percent of the Wilson station reconstruction project, shortly after all customer boarding was moved to the recently completed west island platform. Now that both sides of the new platform are completed and the transit agency is working on demolishing the old one, you can […]
Lakeview News: Right Turns Are Back at Grace/Halsted, Curbside Cafes Debut
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The controversial right-turn ban at Grace/Halsted/Broadway in Lakeview East may have created a new Chicago record for the number of community meetings held over a pair of traffic signs. Fortunately, it appears that a compromise has been reached which should satisfy the drivers who groused about the turn ban, as well as folks who are concerned […]
Car-Free Cappleman Touts Wilson Station Rehab as a Catalyst for TOD
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At a community meeting Wednesday on the upcoming reconstruction of the Red Line’s Wilson stop, 46th Ward Alderman James Cappleman argued that one of the best things about the new station is that it will encourage walkable, transit-friendly development. “One of the things I’ve pushed for as alderman is transit-oriented development, [which is a] good, […]
Uptown Residents Brainstorm Ideas for Redeveloping Vacant Land
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It’s an exciting time to be in Uptown. The Broadway streetscape and road diet, which will hopefully be completed within a few months, as well as the reconstruction of the Wilson ‘L’ station have the potential to transform the center of the neighborhood. This potential has not gone unnoticed by the Metropolitan Planning Council. On […]
Hairston, Cappleman Pass on Participatory Budgeting This Year
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As we’ve recently reported, the 49th Ward is holding its fifth participatory budgeting election this year, the 45th Ward is holding its second, and the 22nd Ward is taking the process for a spin for the first time. However, the 5th and 46th wards, which experimented with PB last year, won’t be taking part. It’s […]
200,000-Plus Warnings in 40 Days Proves We Have a Speeding Epidemic
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On Friday the Chicago Department of Transportation announced that nine automated speed enforcement cameras near four neighborhood parks have issued warnings to more than 200,000 speeders in the first 40 days of operation. Of those violations, more than 200 involved drivers going over 60 mph, at least twice the 30 mph speed limit. Ten were […]