West Town

Ortiz was struck and killed by an Uber Driver in West Town as he was biking to work last June.

After courier Brian Bauer caught up with a motorist who tried to run him off the road to hold him accountable, the driver gave him a vicious beat-down.

The curb-protected bike lanes are taking shape.

Ortiz-Gomez was the second bicyclist killed on Chicago streets in 2018.

A white resident has proposed hiring a security patrol, financed by neighbors, in response to a spike in crime. But people of color argue that this could make them the target of racial profiling.

The new West Town Master Plan, commissioned by the West Town Chamber of Commerce and Special Service Area #29, floats the idea of converting  two of the four mixed-traffic lanes on Chicago Avenue in the neighborhood to buffered bike lanes. While that's a forward-thing idea, it would actually make sense to use that extra right-of-way for dedicated bus lanes, because that would help move a greater number of people across the city more efficiently.

Nearly 100 family members, friends, and members of the cycling community turned out on Saturday to honor art student Lisa Kuivinen with a "ghost bike" installation ceremony at the site where Lisa was fatally struck last month. Ghost bikes are white-painted bicycles locked at crash sites to memorialize victims and raise awareness of the need for safer streets.

Property developer Zack Cupkovic said he didn't really discover Goose Island until four years ago, even though he grew up in the nearby Lakeview neighborhood. The man-made island was created in 1857, when the North Branch canal was completed on the east side of the land mass, separating it from the mainland. When you drive across the island on Division Street, Cupkovic said, "it barely seems like you're going over an island."

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