Fear of Assault Keeps Women From Walking
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Fears of sexual assault and other gender-based violence are actively keeping women from walking in their cities, a new study finds.
New State/Lake ‘L’ station will be a sleek new portal to the Loop
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Plans to redesign the State/Lake 'L' station will make the station accessible to those with disabilities and provide wider platforms, along with a full-coverage, glass canopy.
Today’s Headlines for Monday, June 28
| | No Comments- DuSable Drive overwhelmingly passed the Council, but most white aldermen voted no (Block Club)
- Rock Island Metra train collides with car near 107th/Vincennes, killing 3, including child (ABC)
- Man running red light crashes into sedan, seriously injures 2 teens in Sauganash (Sun-Times)
- 3 CPD officers injured in overnight Austin crash (WGN)
- $20.3 million Fulton Market streetscape project finished after four years (Block Club)
- Officials tell Auburn Gresham residents it may be an affordable housing development or nothing (Block Club)
- A West Side vacant lot will soon become a roller rink and community plaza (Block Club)
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Is this Chicagoland? A modest proposal for defining the region
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is this a reasonable way to define Chicagoland, or does it exclude any towns that deserve to be considered part of the region?
Headlines for Friday, June 25
| | No Comments- Will the Council finally approve DuSable Drive (or “DuSable Lake Shore Drive”) today? (Tribune)
- Letter equates DuSable, who befriended Native people, with Columbus, who enslaved them (Sun-Times)
- 2 police officers and a 3rd person injured in LSD car crash near MSI (CBS)
- Man in good condition after someone cut his neck on Blue Line near Armitage (CBS)
- Man who beat Sanchez Mixon, 37, to death on a Green Line platform in 2013 convicted of murder (AP)
- Man faces DUI charges in Dan Ryan crash that killed one person, injured 3 others (Sun-Times)
- ATA looks at the Cycling Without Age program, which offers free electric tri-rickshaw rides to seniors
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REPORT: Here’s Where People of Color Can’t Access Opportunity Without A Car
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Even the most transit-rich cities in America are failing to connect people without cars — who tend to be disproportionately low-income or people of color — to job opportunities, a new analysis finds.
Chicago announces equitable transit-oriented development pilot program
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The City of Chicago recently announced an equitable transit-oriented development pilot program to assist with the creation of community-led eTOD projects.
Today’s Headlines for Thursday, June 24
| | No Comments- Driver ticketed after striking 11-year-old girl in Norwood Park, whose condition was stabilized (Sun-Times)
- Woman punched and robbed on Adams / Wabash platform (CBS)
- Block Club: As motorcycle gangs and partiers take over 41st pedestrian bridge, neighbors beg city for help
- South Side Weekly: Using Streets & San trucks to deter civil unrest last April cost millions of dollars
- DuSable Drive supporters say they’d be willing to accept Lightfoot’s “DuSable LSD” offer (Tribune)
- Remembering the 1918 Hammond, IN, circus train crash that killed 86 people (Sun-Times)
- Take action now to make CTA and Metra fully accessible (ATA)
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Today’s Headlines for Wednesday, June 23
| | No Comments- Plan proposed to shift electric scooters from pilot to permanent in Chicago (Sun-Times)
- How COVID fuel the e-bike boom in Chicago and nationwide (NBC)
- Man and woman who were shot after minor traffic crash in Humboldt Saturday have both died (ABC)
- CPD: Man arrested after firing gun inside Blue Line train during attempted robbery (ABC)
- I was left-hooked on my bike on Milwaukee Ave. Why wasn’t the driver ticketed? (The Chainlink)
- Fixes to deadly 79th/Stony Island/South Chicago intersection could be on the way (Block Club)
- New Lenox Metra station construction closes crosswalk, platform (Patch)
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No DuSable Drive vote until Friday, but 30 aldermen will likely support name change
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Today's meeting was cut short, but it wasn't a total wash, in that we got some more intel on how aldermen are planning to vote on DuSable Drive.
Loop Alliance releases details on first Sundays on State
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The Chicago Loop Alliance released details on activities Sundays on State attendees will experience.
Lakefront museums are freaked out about DuSable Drive – here’s why they shouldn’t be
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City emails revealed that the Shedd Aquarium, Museum of Science and Industry, Field Museum, and Museum of Science and Industry are worried about the name change. In reality it should be no big deal.