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People sit on the Millennium Park lawn inside distancing circles

Chicagoans need more outdoor entertainment options that don’t require a car

By Courtney Cobbs | Jul 2, 2020 | No Comments

Golf courses are open, but beaches aren't. Since summer street festivals and concerns are canceled, Chicagoans need more outdoor entertainment alternatives.

Still from security footage showing the CDOT trucker dragging the cyclist, who is blurred in the image.

Records indicate bicyclist injured by CDOT trucker is a CDOT safety ambassador

By John Greenfield | Jul 1, 2020 | No Comments

The fact that all signs indicate that the victim was a person hired by CDOT to promote bike safety just makes the irony of a CDOT trucker injuring someone that much more terrible.

Riding bikes on Dickens Avenue. Photo: John Greenfield

Sorry Dickens Greenway NIMBYs, the avenue is slated to become a Slow Street

By John Greenfield | Jul 1, 2020 | No Comments

Doing a Slow Street on Dickens is a great way to test out the neighborhood greenway concept without making permanent infrastructure changes.

A family bikes on a Slow Street on Wabansia Avenue in West Town. Photo: John Greenfield

With “overwhelming support” from residents, Rosa approves Palmer Slow Street

By John Greenfield | Jun 30, 2020 | No Comments

Rosa took a cautious approach towards implementing the plan because the corridor runs through a section of his district that is heavily Latino and hard-hit by COVID-19.

Mourning family members and friends of Isaac Martinez were joined by cyclists who formed a "human-protected bike lane" to honor him. Photo: Mia Park

Family of Issac Martinez, 13, killed on his bike, were joined by cyclists at vigil

By Mia Park and John Greenfield | Jun 30, 2020 | No Comments

Said a neighbor, "It's something that should have never happened with a hit-and-run and a little kid just bicycling through his neighborhood."

The 8300 block of South Lawndale Avenue. Image: Google Maps

Issac Martinez, 13, killed in Ashburn, is 2nd cyclist critically or fatally injured in a week

By John Greenfield | Jun 29, 2020 | No Comments

Martinez was the 3rd cyclist fatally struck in Chicago this year.

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