Recent Streetsblog CHICAGO posts about Lincoln Park

Colectivo Coffee, 2535 N. Clark. Photo: Michelle Stenzel

Eyes on the Street: Swapping Parking for Customer Seating Is a Smart Move

By John Greenfield | Jun 20, 2017 | 25 Comments

Merchants are beginning to understand that their bottom line depends less on the number of vehicles they can park than the number of customers they can accommodate.

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Insult to Injury: Cyclist Was Struck by a Driver, Screwed by His Insurance Company

By John Greenfield | Apr 12, 2017 | 4 Comments

After a driver injured Carey Wintergreen on his bicycle, he knew he’d have a long road to recovery. What he didn’t realize is that he’d have to fight his own health insurance company to avoid getting much of his compensation confiscated.

Comparing Transit Access in Lincoln Park to South Lawndale

By John Greenfield | Nov 11, 2016 | 10 Comments

Here’s some info about transit inequality that I had to leave out of this week’s Chicago Reader column about transportation issues that impact local Latino communities, due to space limitations. Alma Zamudio, who earned a BA in urban planning and public administration at UIC, has worked with various Latino housing, labor, and social justice organizations, […]

Eyes on the Street: Clybourn Curb-Protected Bike Lanes Are Halfway Done

By Steven Vance | Jul 28, 2015 | 11 Comments

Note: Keating Law Offices, P.C. has generously agreed to sponsor two Streetsblog Chicago posts about bicycle safety topics per month. The firm’s support will help make Streetsblog Chicago a sustainable project. Keating Law Offices is not involved in the Bobby Cann case. Just over a month ago, the Illinois Department of Transportation started constructing curb-protected bike […]

No One Questions Parking Plan for Children’s Memorial Site

By Steven Vance | Feb 21, 2014 | 21 Comments

The Chicago Plan Commission yesterday unanimously voted to approve McCaffery Interests’ plan to build two 19-story apartment towers in Lincoln Park on the site of the former Children’s Memorial Hospital. The plan — revised many times before — was equally derided and praised by public commenters at yesterday’s five-hour meeting. People criticized the density and […]

Planning Study for Finkl Steel Site Needs to Consider Transit and Biking

By Steven Vance | Nov 8, 2013 | 26 Comments

With Finkl & Sons Steel vacating 22 acres along Cortland Street between Clybourn Avenue and the Chicago River, the U.S. Environental Protection Agency has given the economic development corporation North Branch Works $200,000 to create a plan that keeps the area industrial. As part of this process, it’s important for walking, biking, and transit to be integrated […]

Divvy Installs 300th Station as Members Keep Riding in Colder Temps

By Steven Vance | Oct 30, 2013 | 11 Comments

Divvy completed the first season’s rollout with the installation of the 300th station at Lincoln/Halsted/Fullerton yesterday afternoon. As the system has grown, annual members are making more trips, even while the temperature drops. As of yesterday there were 10,810 annual members, and the latest stats show that they are making more and more Divvy trips. […]

Woonerfs Are Great, But Lincoln Park Deserves a Car-Free Kenmore

By John Greenfield | Oct 7, 2013 | 42 Comments

Why do some people think Edgewater deserves to have a tranquil, car-free block of Kenmore Avenue running through its local college campus but Lincoln Park doesn’t? Loyola University is moving forward with its plan to build a completely pedestrianized street on the 6300 block of North Kenmore, which is almost totally surrounded by Loyola-owned buildings. […]

The Time Is Ripe to Fix Clark Street Next to Lincoln Park

By Steven Vance | Jul 30, 2013 | 25 Comments

The safety problems on Clark Street between North Avenue and Lincoln Park West are well known. The roadway is too wide, leading too many drivers to speed. Back in 2011, Bike Walk Lincoln Park co-organizer Michelle Stenzel wrote that Clark Street needs a road diet: A motorist heading northbound suddenly notices between the Chicago History Museum […]

New Configuration at Fullerton and LSD Confounds Peds and Cyclists

By Steven Vance | Jun 4, 2013 | 18 Comments

Last year the Chicago Department of Transportation reconfigured Fullerton Avenue between Cannon Drive and the lakefront to make it easier for cars to enter southbound Lake Shore Drive, at the expense of pedestrians and bicyclists. To make room for a dedicated right-turn lane and a second on-ramp lane, CDOT eliminated the south sidewalk of Fullerton, […]

Where Will Bike-Share Stations Go? System Map Begins to Take Shape

By Steven Vance | Apr 26, 2013 | 7 Comments

Chicago’s bike-share system, which will go by the name of Divvy, is on track to launch by the Bike To Work Day Rally on June 14. Divvy will start out with 75 stations in downtown and River North before growing to about 400 stations in an area roughly bounded by Lake Michigan, Devon, California and 63rd. […]

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