Recent Streetsblog CHICAGO posts about Eyes on the Street

A bike lane scofflaw on Clark Street in Lakeview. (License number obscured.) Photo: @tomzychi

Alderperson LaSpata provides an update on efforts to improve bike lane enforcement

By John Greenfield | Jul 21, 2022 | No Comments

While the much-desired ability for bike riders to hold blockers accountable isn't a thing yet, it could be in the foreseeable future.

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.

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.

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.

Joshua Avina-Luna and his sisters. Photo provided by Fabiola Luna.

A witness discusses how a negligent postal worker killed Joshua Avina, 15, on his bike

By John Greenfield | Jul 1, 2022 | No Comments

"This is yet another tragic example of one of Chicago's children not being able to ride safely in the city's streets," said an attorney from a local bike-focused firm.

Bike riders on Clark Street between Irving Park and Montrose. Photo: John Greenfield

Concrete-protected lanes are coming to Clark St. from Irving to Montrose, maybe further

By John Greenfield | Jun 20, 2022 | No Comments

47th Ward alderman hopes to also get bikeways installed north of Montrose as part of the Clark Street Crossroads planning process.

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