Recent Streetsblog CHICAGO posts about Edgewater

Rendering of the contra-flow bike lane on Glenwood.

It Won’t Be Long Until the Glenwood Greenway Is Ready to Ride

By John Greenfield | May 3, 2017 | 10 Comments

CDOT’s upcoming project to legalize contraflow riding on Glenwood will encourage southbound cyclists to stick to the west side of the street, and notify drivers of their presence.

During Greenway Meeting, Osterman Proposes Seminars on Sharing the Road

By Alex Soble | Oct 25, 2016 | 13 Comments

Thirty people gathered at the the Rivendell Theatre in Edgewater on Saturday morning to discuss the treatments currently being added to a short stretch of Glenwood Avenue to create a pedestrian- and bike-friendly “neighborhood greenway.” These changes include a new contraflow bike lane and signage that will calm traffic and facilitate two-way bike traffic on this […]

After Driver Injures Senior at Devon/Greenview, City May Fix Intersection

By John Greenfield | Apr 9, 2016 | 14 Comments

On Wednesday at around 4 p.m. a motorist struck and injured an elderly woman at the intersection of Devon and Greenview, on the border between Edgewater and Rogers Park. The woman who was struck is 70 years old and she was taken to St. Francis Hospital in critical condition, according to Officer Kevin Quaid from […]

Eyes on the Street: Loyola University’s New Kenmore Avenue Path

By Melissa Manak | Oct 31, 2014 | 37 Comments

Loyola University Chicago recently expanded its Lake Shore campus south into the neighborhood, and took a different approach to connect the new buildings to its main campus across busy Sheridan Road. The university closed to car travel the entire 6300 block of North Kenmore Avenue, between Rosemont Avenue and Sheridan Road, and replaced the avenue […]

The River of Traffic On Ridge/Hollywood Hurts Edgewater’s Livability

By Steven Vance | Aug 21, 2014 | 47 Comments

The Edgewater neighborhood along the north lakefront should be a pleasant place to walk. It’s the second-densest community area in the city, with 56,521 residents in an area just 1.5 miles across, and boasts lively commercial areas like Andersonville. Yet local residents say that their neighborhood is effectively cleaved into two by a roiling river of car traffic. […]

Speed Camera Cut Dangerous Speeding Next to Senn Park By 73%

By Steven Vance | Aug 18, 2014 | 34 Comments

Fast times on Ridge Avenue, in front of Senn High School, are now over: The speed camera that CDOT installed in front of Senn Park has sharply cut the number of speeders cruising at a dangerous 40+ mph. Right after the camera was first installed, roughly seven out of 1,000 drivers received an official mailed warning […]

Speeding Driver Kills Elderly Man, Injures 5 in Edgewater Pileup

By John Greenfield | Jul 31, 2014 | 3 Comments

View Larger Map The crash site, from the driver’s perspective. A senior is dead and five others are injured, after a reckless driver crashed into several parked cars in the Edgewater Beach neighborhood, officials said. At around 11:12 a.m. Wednesday, a 58-year-old man was driving a Ford Focus sedan northbound on Sheridan at a high […]

Eyes on the Street: Checking Out New Bikeways Across the City

By John Greenfield | Jun 23, 2014 | 8 Comments

[This piece also runs in Checkerboard City, John’s column in Newcity magazine, which hits the streets on Wednesday evenings.] For a bike-infrastructure geek like myself, this is the most exciting time of the year, when the city is in the thick of rolling out the season’s new lanes. Most of the twenty miles of new bikeways […]

Building Another Strip Mall by a Red Line Stop Won’t Help Edgewater

By John Greenfield | Mar 20, 2014 | 20 Comments

View Larger Map The former Piser Weinstein Funeral Home site. Located just around the corner from the Red Line’s Berwyn station, the former Piser Weinstein Funeral Home site, 5206 North Broadway in Edgewater, would make an excellent spot for transit-oriented development. Sadly, that doesn’t appear to be its destiny. Edgeville Buzz reports that the funeral […]

Loyola Proposes Building a “People Street” on Kenmore Avenue

By John Greenfield | Mar 29, 2013 | 30 Comments

View Larger Map Looking north on the 6300 block of North Kenmore Avenue prior to the current construction. Last year the Chicago Department of Transportation striped a contraflow bike lane on Albion Avenue in Rogers Park. The idea was to allow northbound cyclists to avoid busy Sheridan Road by riding from the Kenmore Avenue bike […]

Bike Parking Revolution: Brewpub to Get Chicago’s Fifth On-Street Corral

By John Greenfield | Mar 7, 2013 | 16 Comments

On-street bike corrals have many benefits for retail areas. They accommodate a high number of customers and advertise the efficiency of cycling, since one car spot fits up to 12 bikes. Parking bikes in the street frees up space on sidewalks for pedestrians. On-street racks placed at corners improve sight lines and shorten crossing distances […]