Recent Streetsblog CHICAGO posts about Total Charters

Colorado, Ohio, Delaware, W. Virginia, Texas added to Chicago travel quarantine list (Block Club) RTA sounds federal transit alarms as 2021 budget work begins (Bond Buyer) Secretary of State announces IL teen driver deaths are down 74 percent since 2007 (WBBM) 2nd man has died after a motorist drove off I-290 in Elmhurst and struck […]

Take this survey to show support for bus lanes on LSD without widening the drive (ATA) Sterling Bay: Work on 606 extension, bridge to Lincoln Yards with bike lanes, begins next year (Block Club) Police officer crashes, falls off overpass onto Kennedy Expressway; OB lanes closed near Foster (WGN) Police searching for man accused of […]

ATA’s Rynell: As Divvy expands, we need a network of protected bike lanes (Crain’s) Metra’s 3 Union Pacific lines will have manned ticket verification booths at Ogilvie (Tribune) Driver fatally struck male cyclist near North Shore Bike Path in Libertyville (ABC) Woman, 66, taking motorcycle training course at suburban Harper College dies in crash (NBC) […]

Residents protest outside Chicago police HQ in the wake of Breonna Taylor decision (NBC) CTA service diverted from near police HQ to discourage participation in the protest (NBC) Father Pfleger leads march, rally in Auburn Gresham after the Taylor decision (NBC) NBC looks at South Shore Line’s “Mask Optional” service between Indiana and Chicago Indiana […]

Person in car fatally shot man, 26, inside Morse Red Line station at 6 PM (Tribune) Hit-and-run pickup driver struck woman, 61, at bus stop in South Loop, injuring her legs (Block Club) Police chase ends in 4-car crash at Roosevelt and Dan Ryan with at least 1 person injured (Tribune) Church near California Blue […]

Tribune: Union Pacific needs to start forcing conductors, masked, to collect Metra fares Metra CEO Derwinski discusses the railroad’s ridership and revenue challenges (WBBM) Longtime CTA bus driver Gabriel Tyson, 68, found murdered in Markham home (CBS) Driver who killed pedestrian, 67, in Englewood charged with hit-and-run (Sun-Times) 4 people critically injured in crash this […]

Man charged with the stabbings of four homeless men on CTA and in Grant Park (ABC) Driver killed cyclist Jan Kopec, 83, Friday 6 PM in the 5100 block of S. Archer (Sun-Times) Ashburn doughnut shop asks for public’s help after van driver smashes into storefront (Block Club) ATA looks at mobility in the time […]

Truck driver killed Domingo Duran Soriano, 78, on Hoffman Estates sidewalk (Sun-Times) Prosecutors: Driver who killed Patricia Wickers, 76, was high on PCP, drove 76 mph (Sun-Times) WBEZ looks at the issue of police confiscating 76 bikes at Friday’s Columbus protest Metra asks STB for injunction against Union Pacific to maintain commuter service (Trains) Metra […]

ATA: Safe Routes Partnership report says Illinois lags other states in walking and biking policy City expands reopening of Riverwalk, restoring path to full, daylong use (Tribune) Jack Roche, fatally struck in Mount Greenwood, mourned by football team he managed (KansasCity.com) Car sliced in two, no fatalities reported in 6-vehicle crash at Park Ridge-Niles border […]

Hit-and-run driver arrested after fatally striking Isaac Martinez, 13, on his bike in Ashburn (Tribune) Convicted murder charged in slaying of Brandon McGhee, 23 outside Logan station (Sun-Times) 6 hurt after CTA bus driver crashes into building after being struck by hit-and-run driver (Sun-Times) Man suffers minor injuries after lying under oncoming Pink Line train […]

ACLU: Other than the 1st night of curfew, 93% of those arrested for violations were Black (Sun-Times) 3 dead, 2 injured after driver hits hydrant, tree in Ashburn near Evergreen Cemetery Man, 54, fatally shot on bike near Rogers Park’s Recyclery after getting caught in crossfire (Tribune) Trucker fatally struck Jake Enblom, 20, on I-80 […]