Recent Streetsblog CHICAGO posts about Chicago

Still from the video showing the unmarked police SUV after the driver struck the teen who was filming from his bike. The wheel and pedal of his bike is visible in the frame. Image: Facebook

Video shows CPD officers confronting, striking teen on bike and fleeing the scene

By John Greenfield | Jul 15, 2022 | No Comments

This is the second disturbing incident this month in Chicagoland involving teens of color, bicycles, and alleged police violence.

Rendering of an affordable TOD by 43rd Street Green Line stop.

Connected Communities equitable TOD ordinance headed to zoning committee

By Courtney Cobbs | Jul 13, 2022 | No Comments

The proposed Connected Communities ordinance has been released. We looked at some of the changes the ordinance proposes.

Clockwise from top left: Speed cameras on a two-lane street next to Sherman Park in a majority-Black census tract in Englewood; on a four-lane street next to Warren Park in a majority-Asian-American tract in West Ridge; on a four-lane street Next to Curie High in a majority-Latino tract in Archer Heights; and on a four-lane street next to Welles Park in a majority-non-Hispanic white tract in Lincoln Square. Images: Google Street View

Road widths aren’t to blame for Chicago’s racial disparities in speed cam ticketing

By John Greenfield | Jul 12, 2022 | No Comments

While ProPublica recently wrote that "wider streets with more lanes that lend themselves to speeding... seem to contribute to the [racial/ethnic] disparities in ticketing," the data doesn't support that theory.

A road diet with bike lanes and pedestrian and bus-boarding islands was recently implemented on Jackson Boulevard in Columbus Park. Martin's ordinance would require CDOT to consider similar accommodations whenever streets are repaved. Photo: John Greenfield

Ordinance would require walk/bike/transit upgrades whenever streets are repaved

By Courtney Cobbs | Jul 7, 2022 | No Comments

The goal of the legislation is to ensure that every time CDOT repaves a street, rather than simply restriping it the same way as before, it prioritizes the needs of people walking, biking, and riding transit.

Looking west down Highland Park's Central Avenue from a UP-N train yesterday afternoon in the wake of the shooting. The shooter was standing on the roof of the Ross Cosmetics Building at Central and 2nd Avenue, about a block west of the tracks. Photo: Igor Studenkov

What it was like riding Metra the day the U.S. gun violence epidemic reached Highland Park

By Igor Studenkov | Jul 5, 2022 | No Comments

Even amid death and trauma, people still have places to get, and public transit will, hopefully, still be there to serve them.

A slide stressing the importance of diverse community engagement, at a meeting that was impossible for working-class people to attend. Image: CDOT

Equity-focused Chicago Mobility Collaborative meeting takes place at inequitable time of day

By John Greenfield | Jun 30, 2022 | No Comments

The transportation department could take one very simple action to help more broaden the demographics of who has a say in Chicago mobility projects, but for some reason it has resisted doing so.

Show More Stories