Recent Streetsblog CHICAGO posts about Open Streets

Citing Lack of Funds, Active Trans Discontinues Open Streets

By John Greenfield | Feb 6, 2014 | 16 Comments

It pains me to report there probably won’t be an Open Streets event in Chicago this year. Since 2005, the Active Transportation Alliance has been lobbying the city of Chicago to stage a ciclovía, a Latin American-style car-free event, in which the streets are opened for walking, biking, and other forms of healthy recreation. Various […]

Sunday’s Rainy Open Streets Made the Case for Multiple Car-Free Events

By Steven Vance and John Greenfield | Sep 17, 2013 | 8 Comments

The longer route and new activities of this year’s Milwaukee Avenue Open Streets cicloviá promised to bring the car-free playground into more neighborhoods and attract more people. The event expanded from last year’s 1.4 miles to 2.6 miles, and the city had signed up — for the first time ever — to pay for police officers […]

Three Miles of Milwaukee Will Be Open for Car-Free Play This September

By John Greenfield | Jul 26, 2013 | 8 Comments

Although Chicago was one of the first U.S. cities to consider staging a ciclovía, a Latin-American-style event that creates temporary car-free street space in order to encourage healthy recreation, community interaction and commerce, we’re currently way behind peer cities. New York, Los Angeles, Portland, Oregon, and San Francisco are each hosting several ciclovía events this […]