Recent Streetsblog CHICAGO posts about Local Businesses

The most recent rendering of One Central. Image: Gensler Architect

The Tribune is right: One Central transit hub doesn’t yet deserve a $6.5B subsidy

By John Greenfield and AJ LaTrace | Feb 15, 2021 | No Comments

More likely the transit hub is something that Landmark added to the project as an excuse to have Illinois pay for capping the Metra tracks to provide a platform for the development.

Ald. Martin kyboshes autocentric supermarket planned for a transit-friendly site

By John Greenfield | Feb 11, 2021 | No Comments

The area needs a land use that supports local businesses and makes the area more pedestrian- and bike-friendly, rather than an "anti-transit-oriented development" that undermine those goals.

Rendering of the new Northwestern clinic.

Instead of spending millions on parking for a new clinic, why not subsidize transit use?

By Courtney Cobbs | Feb 11, 2021 | No Comments

After pushback from neighbors, Northwestern is spending $7 million more to move all 350 parking spots in its new clinic underground. Could some of these car trips be replaced with transit?

ATA Transit Equity Day forum focused on importance of transit access for economic recovery

By Sharon Hoyer | Feb 8, 2021 | No Comments

The panel also discussed how improving transit access in Black and Brown communities can help fight segregation and reduce violence.

We don't have a particular problem with Dunkin' Donuts -- we just don't want to see single-story drive-throughs built on transit-adjacent land.

Could the lot next to the 35th/Archer station be saved for TOD after all?

By John Greenfield | Feb 3, 2021 | No Comments

In January the Chicago Department of Buildings put a hold on the construction permit, halting plans for a single-story drive-trough Dunkin' Donuts.

A detail from Nate Hucheson's proposed Slow Street circuit map.

Could a network of Slow Streets circuits speed pandemic recovery?

By John Greenfield | Jan 27, 2021 | No Comments

Streetsblog reader Nate Hutcheson brainstormed a system of Slow Streets designed as a community and economic development strategy.

Show More Stories