Recent Streetsblog CHICAGO posts about Total Charters

CTA 2022 budget calls for maintaining service levels, no fare hikes, cutting pass costs (Tribune) Encuentro Square,  100-unit affordable housing project near Bloomingdale Trail, coming in 2022 (Block Club) Police release description of car whose driver critically injured pedestrian in Chicago Lawn (Sun-Times) Cop faces firing for allegedly detaining CTA employee who accused fellow officer […]

CTA bus driver fatally strikes man, 85, near Buena underpass to the Lakefront Trail (Sun-Times) Motorist fatally struck Timothy Hackett, 30, on bike in Park Ridge six-way intersection (Tribune) Driver illegally passing tow truck in Beach Park killed Jose Hernandez, critically injured stepsons (ABC) 1 dead, several injured, after 7-car crash on the Kennedy near […]

2 motorcycle riders killed in S. Deering; Driver killed on DuSable Drive in Lakeview (Tribune) Family holds vigil for Michael Brooks, 59, killed in Aurora hit-and-run as police search for vehicle (ABC) A man boarded a CTA bus in Bronzeville after being shot during an altercation (WGN) Metra will continue to sell $10 all-day pass […]

Developer touts benefits of One Central “transit hub,” widely viewed as a boondoggle (Crain’s) More coverage of plan to improve safety at Logan/Western in the wake of 2 cyclist deaths (Block Club, CBS) Residents weigh in on the new traffic diverters on Logan and Kedzie boulevards (Block Club) SUV driver fatally struck Tyler Eberly, 15, […]

Tribune editorial: Set too low, speed cams tickets hundreds of thousands of speeders Massive Goose Island development poised to get initial approval from city (Block Club) New Lenox teen airlifted to Loyola after head-on crash with truck on Laraway Road (Tribune) Man charged in CTA hammer attacks; Transit union holds protest for safer working conditions […]

Anti-BRT activist Romanelli pushes $2B “transit plan” to make it easier to drive on Lake Street (Sun-Times) Man, 70, dead after “crashing his bicycle into a parked truck near the Field Museum” (NBC) There have been a series of attacks on pedestrians in Loop, including assailants on Divvy bikes (FOX) Amtrak-Metra ties are back on […]

Daily Line looks at CDOT’s failure to hold bike and ped advisory council meetings during COVID Little Village parents call on city to house people living in viaduct on school route (Block Club) Hit-and-run driver rear-ends car in Hermosa, killing girl, 16, in back seat (ABC) Driver charged with DUI, violating Scott’s Law after injuring […]

As Hilco’s Target Warehouse opens, activists warn of more pollution, truck traffic in Little Village (Block Club) Former alderman Bob Fioretti says he believes he caught COVID-19 on a CTA bus (Defender) Woman killed, 2 officers injured after Dolton restaurant confrontation, crash into Compleat Cyclist bike shop (ABC) Allegedly intoxicated driver taken into custody after […]

Joseph Barbee, 27, shot and killed while riding Divvy bike in Gresham, no one is in custody (Sun-Times) West Rogers Park/West Ridge community mourns Hershel Weinberger’s death (CBS 2) Chicago Police Board has fired an officer for a reckless police chase that led to two deaths in 2017 (CBS 2) Another report and more details […]

Biden visits Crystal Lake to tout his plan to support “human infrastructure” (Sun-Times) Tribune editorial: Abuse of aldermanic privilege is a “gateway to corruption” CPD releases new info about 6/20 hit-and-run in Austin that killed motorcyclist (Tribune) Dangerous high waves predicted for the lakefront today (Block Club) Chase eyes sites for potential new skyscraper (Chicago […]

As Chicago reopens from COVID, traffic is getting worse (Tribune) After vote to rename LSD for DuSable, Lightfoot says she will move ahead with DuSable Park plan (Tribune) Noah Berlatsky: Lightfoot’s DSD opposition is to blame for “throwing the Council into chaos for weeks” Essence Ransberry, 5, identified as child from Beverly Metra/car crash that […]

After hit-and-run driver injured Oscars Olivares, 27, in Avondale, neighbors are raising money for him (Block Club) 13-year-old boy shot in leg while riding bike in West Pullman (Sun-Times) Group of people of Divvy bikes attack man on bike at Madison/Wabash, steal his cycle (CBS) New service offers by-the-month scooter rentals, advocates say more PBLs […]