Recent Streetsblog CHICAGO posts about Wicker Park Apartments

Active Trans Comes Out Against Metra Plan to Cut Service on Electric Line Judge Orders Claypool, Staff to Testify in CTA Whistleblower Case (WTTW) Is Chicago’s Cab Industry on the Verge of Collapse? (ABC) Current Efforts to Prevent Dooring Crashes Aren’t Working (Kevenides) Michael Reese Site To Become Housing, Hotel, Tech Space; Developer Picked (DNA) […]

Police: Suspect Fleeing Traffic Stop in Greater Grand Crossing Struck Officer, Pedestrian (ABC) Video: A Cyclist Gets Doored by an Uber Passenger on Milwaukee in Wicker Park (Chicagoist) Ex-Chicagoan Dan Savage: Better Transit Could Help Mitigate Seattle Displacement (The Stranger) Active Trans’s Jim Merrell Discusses Upcoming Bike Projects on WTTW The Success of Cleveland’s Health […]

Study: As Chicago Expanded Bike Network and Mode Share Rose, Crash, Fatality Rates Fell (Chicagoist) Driver Who Rammed Teen to Death Against Tree Charged With 1st Degree Murder (Sun-Times) Redevelopment of Rezkoville, Along River South of Roosevelt, Could Include 50-Story Tower (Curbed) Concerns About Congestion Kill Plan for 10-Story Building on 2300 Block of N. […]

Healy Metra Station, a Few Blocks From The 606, Is Getting a $7.3M Makeover (Tribune) Chicago and NYC Keep the Momentum Going for Buying Riverfront Trails (MPC) Somos: Trashing Moreno’s Office Was Wrong, But Shows Growing Anger Over Gentrification (Chicagoist) Critics of N. Branch Plan Say Area Needs 1 Big Park, Not Several Small Ones (DNA) N. Branch […]

State: Selling Thompson Center Would Net Chicago $45M a Year in Property Taxes (Tribune) Chicago Budget Director: No, It Wouldn’t (Politico) Driver Charged With Reckless Homicide After Fatal South Loop Crash (DNA) DUI Crackdown on the North Side’s Town Hall Police District This Weekend (DNA) New Riverfront Public Spaces Need to Be Accessible to People […]

Rahm: I’m Blocking Thompson Center Sale So We Don’t Get Stuck With CTA Tab (DNA) Hopkins, Smith, Waguespack Rip North Branch Plan Over Lack of Green Space (Crain’s) DNA Looks at Redevelopment Issues Around Belmont Flyover in Advance of Thursday Meeting Hairston: Downzoning 71st Needed to Block Businesses That “Don’t Generate Jobs” (DNA) 4 Injured at 55th and […]

Officials Claim Widening the Tri-State Tollway Won’t Require Tax Money, Toll Hike (Tribune) DNA Looks at IDOT’s 2015 Crash Fatality Data Video Footage Leads to Arrest of Man Who Sexually Assaulted Girl on CTA Bus (DNA) SUV Driver Who Fatally Struck Woman in Franklin Park Sued (Sun-Times) 6 Planned High-Rise Projects Over 800 Feet Will […]

Burke, Beale Want Police to Consider Using “Textalyzer” on Drivers After Crashes (Tribune) 2 Officers Injured in Crash While Responding to Dan Ryan Homicide (CBS) Security Video Leads to Arrest in Red Line Station Murder Case (Tribune) Prosecutors: Driver in Fatal Crash Had Alcohol, Marijuana, Cocaine in System (Tribune) City Council Approves Crackdown on Party Buses (DNA) […]

Safety Committee Approves More Patrolling of CTA, Park Property by CPD Officers (Sun-Times) Neighborhood Group Objects to Density Along North Branch Corridor, Wants Park (DNA) Police Warn of a Spate of Armed Taxi Driver Robberies Around the City (Chicagoist) Man Attempts to Steal Bike in Lakeview, Swings Chunk of Concrete at the Owner (DNA) Metra […]