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Experts agree: Seattle-style park tactics can be a solution for safely reopening the lakefront
Everyone from Mayor Lightfoot to the Chicago Area Runners Association is on the same page: Social Distancing Ambassadors and other strategies can keep park users safe.
May 19, 2020
Humboldt ring road will be closed to parking, open for walk/bike Memorial Day
The parking ban will help prevent dangerous congregating, but will also enable pedestrian activity in the road.
May 19, 2020
Activists Speak Out Against the Privatization of Douglas Park for Riot Fest
[Note: This Chicago Reader article lies a bit outside Streetsblog Chicago’s usual wheelhouse of transportation and livable streets topics, but since it covers an important local public space issue, I thought it might be of interest to Streetsblog readers.]
September 8, 2016
Streeterville Residents Redefine Their Own Bit of Lake Shore Drive
John Krause isn't the only north lakefront resident who realizes that the Illinois Department of Transportation's "Redefine The Drive" reconstruction of North Lake Shore Drive is a chance to reinvent how the city meets the shore and the street.
July 10, 2014
A Highway Teardown Appears Likely, In an Unlikely Place
As the nation prepares for the expansion of the Panama Canal and all port cities go crazy deepening and widening everything in sight, the second biggest biggest port in the country is doing something unexpected: planning a highway teardown.
November 22, 2013