Recent Streetsblog CHICAGO posts about Jefferson Park

How the New TOD Ordinance Could Save a Rejected Jeff Park Development

By Michael Podgers and John Greenfield | Aug 19, 2015 | 10 Comments

Last Tuesday, the city’s Community Development Commission put the brakes on Mega Realty’s plan to build a housing and retail development on two vacant lots located a five-minute walk from the Jefferson Park Transit Center. One of the parcels is city-owned, and the commission voted against a proposal to give the land, valued at $530,000, to the developer […]

CDOT Says Controversial Jeff Park Street Closure Is About Reducing Crashes

By John Greenfield | Jul 21, 2015 | 10 Comments

Some Streetsblog Chicago commenters have argued that Steven Vance and myself are always in favor of limiting car access in the name of street safety, but that’s not the case. We’re still not sure whether a Chicago Department of Transportation street closure project in Jefferson Park was prompted by a speeding and crash problem, as […]

Now the Jeff Park NIMBYs Are Fighting Arena’s P-Street Proposal

By John Greenfield | Oct 10, 2014 | 27 Comments

The Jefferson Park NIMBYs are at it again. First they went nuclear over the city’s proposal for a road diet with protected bike lanes on Milwaukee Avenue, which would have reduced speeding and crashes, and created more people-friendly retail strips. Now they’re freaking out about 45th Ward Alderman John Arena’s proposed ordinance to designate a […]

Garrido Grandstands Against Milwaukee Road Diet at Public Meeting

By John Greenfield | Jul 3, 2014 | 42 Comments

Last night, announced aldermanic candidate John Garrido hijacked a crowded community meeting about the city’s proposal for a safety overhaul of Milwaukee from Lawrence to Elston. He interrupted the event to present Chicago Department of Transportation engineers with what he said were 4,000 signatures in opposition to any reconfiguration of the street that would involve […]

Uninsured Motorist Kills Senior in Jefferson Park

By John Greenfield | Jun 18, 2014 | 4 Comments

View Larger Map The 5900 block of North Elston from the driver’s perspective. A 45-year-old woman struck and killed Joseph Kubica, 77, early Saturday morning in the Jefferson Park neighborhood on the Northwest Side. Around 12:50 a.m., Kubica was walking across the street on the 5900 block of North Elston, according to Officer José Estrada […]

Jefferson Parkers Can Vote for Bike Lanes, Metra Improvement in PB Election

By John Greenfield | Apr 7, 2014 | 3 Comments

Last year, residents of the 45th Ward, made up largely of the Jefferson Park neighborhood, had the opportunity to vote for a number of outside-the-box transportation projects in the ward’s participatory budgeting election. Most of those proposals, including bike lanes on Lawrence and Milwaukee, and on-street bike parking corrals, didn’t win, but voters did opt […]

Arena’s Foe Attacks Milwaukee Safety Overhaul, Advocates Fight Back

By John Greenfield | Jan 28, 2014 | 58 Comments

John Garrido, a Chicago cop and part-time lawyer, narrowly lost to 45th Ward Alderman John Arena in the 2011 election. Now Garrido has started an online petition against the city’s plan for a road diet and protected bike lanes on Milwaukee in the district, a project that Arena has endorsed. The Chicago Department of Transportation […]

Resistance From NW Side Residents Threatens Milwaukee Safety Overhaul

By John Greenfield | Jan 14, 2014 | 68 Comments

View Larger Map Current conditions at Milwaukee and Manila. Speaking at an Active Transportation Alliance gala back in 2011, founding director Randy Neufeld predicted that we’d see some major backlash to the mayor’s plan to build 100 miles of protected bike lanes. He asked the audience to see things from the perspective of residents whose […]