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Kids wrote messages on a blackboard in one of the parklets. Photo: James Porter

Converting parking to people space on 75th helps reenergize Black-owned restaurant strip

By James Porter | Sep 10, 2020 | No Comments

The new 75th Street Boardwalk, located between Calumet and Indiana avenues is available for use by eleven local restaurants and businesses.

The electric Divvy bike from the fatal crash. Image: ABC Chicago

Chicago’s spike in cycling fatalities continues with first e-Divvy death on Near West Side

By John Greenfield | Sep 9, 2020 | No Comments

The latest fatality was the seventh on-street Chicago bike fatality, and the second bike-share death in our city.

Bikes sharing a rack with scooters: minor inconvenience or major headache? Photo: John Greenfield

Chicago lock-to rule means scooters are parked on bike racks. Is that a problem or NBD?

By John Greenfield | Sep 4, 2020 | No Comments

The downside of the lock-to strategy is that scooters are taking up space on our city's limited number of bike parking fixtures, and that really annoys some cyclists.

Christine and her family on New Bike Day.
Photo Courtesy of Wheel & Sprocket

The pandemic has inspired more Chicagoans to buy e-bikes

By Courtney Cobbs | Sep 2, 2020 | No Comments

E-bike sales have increased alongside sales of traditional bikes during COVID-19. New e-bike owners in Chicago shared their thoughts and experiences.

The Fulton MArket Cafe Street. Photo: Eric Allix Rogers

Chicago’s Cafe Streets have been hugely successful. Let’s make them permanent.

By John Greenfield | Sep 1, 2020 | No Comments

Since pedestrianized dining districts are so economically successful and vibrant, and so much more pleasant than the normal car-choked situation, why don't we make them permanent?

As police reform movement intensifies, an update on CTA shooting victim Ariel Roman

By John Greenfield | Aug 27, 2020 | No Comments

Amidst recent tragedies, Roma's slow recovery offers a small glimmer of hope.

Oakland spokesperson Sean Maher test-rides a seated scooter. Photo: Roger Rudick, Streetsblog San Francisco

Seated e-scooters are coming to Chicago to provide an option for people with disabilities

By Imelda March | Aug 26, 2020 | No Comments

Lime will be rolling out seated models as early as this week, which people with disabilities can request from Lime or one of its community partners.

A wheelchair user enters Wabansia at Western Avenue. 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.

A pile of bikes sit near an office building on LaSalle Street after Saturday's protest. Photo: Justin Laurence

After CPD seized more bikes at Loop protest, Safe Bike Chicago is offering donated cycles

By Ariel Parrella-Aureli | Aug 20, 2020 | No Comments

The group has raised more than $80,00 for people who lost their bikes at protests, and collected 42 cycles at a donation event last Sunday to replace confiscated ones.

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.

Peter Byrd on the Woodlawn Slow Street. Photo: James Porter

South Siders weigh in on Slow Streets

By James Porter | Aug 18, 2020 | No Comments

Some neighbors like the pedestrian-friendly streets, while others seem unclear on the concept, which indicates that more outreach about how Slow Streets work is needed.

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