Recent Streetsblog CHICAGO posts about Logan Square

“School of Rock” drummer Kevin Clark is second cyclist killed at Logan/Western within 13 years

By John Greenfield | May 26, 2021 | No Comments

This second bike fatality at Logan/Western in 13 years underscores the fact that we can't wait any longer for safety improvements at this location.

The intersection of Diversey and Albany, looking north, as it appeared in May 2019. The crosswalks have reportedly faded since then. Image: Google Maps

Logan pedestrian fatality highlights how IDOT control of Chicago streets makes us less safe

By John Greenfield | Apr 13, 2021 | No Comments

This horrifying incident has laid bare how the Illinois Department of Transportation having final say on changes to many Chicago streets makes our city more dangerous.

The current layout of the Logan Square traffic circle and the remix. Images: Google Maps, CDOT

Logan Square bikeway plans are disappointing, but traffic circle remix is exciting

By John Greenfield | Mar 18, 2021 | No Comments

While it's a bummer that Logan Square won't be getting robust bikeways as part of the Diversey and Milwaukee projects, it's great that the long-awaited traffic circle remix and La Placita are finally coming to fruition.

Credit:Evergreen Real Estate Group / Pappageorge Haymes Partners

A rendering of the affordable housing project proposed for 2525 N. Kedzie Bouelvard.

2nd affordable transit-oriented development proposed near Logan Square station

By Courtney Cobbs | Mar 17, 2021 | No Comments

A proposal for a housing development near the Logan Square Blue Line station includes 64 affordable units. If approved, the site would be the second transit-oriented development near the 'L' stop.

The 3900 block of West Fullerton Avenue, looking west. Image: Google Maps

Patsy Ely, 62, killed in Logan DUI crash, was first Chicago pedestrian fatality of 2021

By John Greenfield | Jan 6, 2021 | No Comments

Drivers have killed at least two other pedestrians on Fullerton, a wide five-lane road, within two miles of this crash site in recent years.

Plastic fantastic: Nearly completed Milwaukee plastic-curb PBLs are functioning well

By John Greenfield | Oct 2, 2020 | No Comments

Some business owners are grumbling about customers having to cross the street from their parking spaces, but CDOT says projects like this are the wave of the future.

Rendering of the planned bike bridge across Lake Calumet to Big Marsh bike park.

Illinois Bike Summit included updates on projects in Logan, Big Marsh, downstate

By Sharon Hoyer | Sep 17, 2020 | No Comments

The Illinois Bike Summit, an annual gathering of bike planners, advocates, shop owners, and enthusiasts, took place virtually Tuesday with the theme of infrastructure, education and inclusion.

A plastic curb-protected bike lane in Lima, Peru. Photo: John Greenfield

Let’s install cheap, quick plastic curb-protected bike lanes all over Chicago

By John Greenfield | Sep 12, 2020 | No Comments

An upcoming bikeway project in Logan Square will demonstrate this fairly cheap, quick, flexible, and effective approach to installing protected lanes that should be repeated across the city.

A family uses the Slow Street on Wabansia. Photo: Courtney Cobbs

The western third of the Cortland/Wabansia Slow Street has been dismantled

By Courtney Cobbs | Aug 24, 2020 | No Comments

Over the weekend CDOT dismantled part of another popular Slow Street in response to feedback from residents and use data the department collected.

Goodbye parking lot, hello affordable housing: Logan TOD construction starts next month

By John Greenfield | Aug 18, 2020 | No Comments

Two months after a judge dismissed the NIMBY lawsuit against the project, work is finally set to begin.

A family bikes on a Slow Street on Wabansia Avenue in West Town. Photo: John Greenfield

With “overwhelming support” from residents, Rosa approves Palmer Slow Street

By John Greenfield | Jun 30, 2020 | No Comments

Rosa took a cautious approach towards implementing the plan because the corridor runs through a section of his district that is heavily Latino and hard-hit by COVID-19.

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