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  • At Bike Lane Uprising party, La Spata, Giannoulias, and CDOT’s Powe urged activists to keep pushing for safe streets
  • Today’s Headlines for Friday, September 18
  • Today’s Headlines for Friday, August 28

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chi.streetsblog.org /4 weeks ago

At Bike Lane Uprising party, La Spata, Giannoulias, and CDOT’s Powe urged activists to keep pushing for safe streets

This post is sponsored by Ride Illinois. As Christina Whitehouse, founder of Bike Lane Uprising, a civic tech platform for reporting bikeway obstructions, recently told Block Cl...

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chi.streetsblog.org /1 month ago

Today’s Headlines for Friday, September 18

• Thursday around 6 PM “Multiple Metra train lines impacted by police investigation on Chicago’s NW side” near Grand/Cicero (NBC) • CPD: Hit-and-run SUV driver injured man, 74,...

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chi.streetsblog.org /1 month ago

Today’s Headlines for Friday, August 28

Sponsored by: • Person on foot killed in hit-and-run crash along Dan Ryan Expressway (WGN) • “Man charged with setting woman on fire on CTA Blue Line, not in court fo...

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chi.streetsblog.org /1 month ago

Today’s Headlines for Wednesday, September 16

This post is sponsored by Keating Law Offices. • Alders call for traffic safety action in wake of CDOT employee Riley O’Neil’s bike death (Tribune) • Delays on 2 CTA lines a...

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chi.streetsblog.org /3 weeks ago

Today’s Headlines for Wednesday, September 30

This post is sponsored by Keating Law Offices. • Crossover driver struck man, 23, on e-scooter, causing injuries requiring hospitalization, helped him up, then fled the scene, S...

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chi.streetsblog.org /1 month ago

Today’s Headlines for Wednesday, August 26

This post is sponsored by Keating Law Offices. • “Editorial: Chicago has dreamed of an O’Hare express for decades. This one deserves a shot.” (Crain’s) • “This proposed shutt...

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chi.streetsblog.org /2 weeks ago

Today’s Headlines for Thursday, October 8

Sponsored by: • A hit-and-run pickup driver may have fatally struck James Ange, 56, Sunday around 8:41 PM at 5-lane Grand Avenue and Baldwin Avenue in Waukegan (ABC)...

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chi.streetsblog.org /1 month ago

Today’s Headlines for Thursday, September 24

Sponsored by: • Concrete supplier working on Oak Park Avenue streetscape in Oak Park fatally struck Ann Marie LoPrieno, 71, Wednesday morning at North Boulevard and...

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chi.streetsblog.org /1 month ago

Today’s Headlines for Thursday, September 3

Sponsored by: • John’s new op-ed in the Tribune: “Sean Duffy doesn’t deserve credit for Midwest Amtrak funding,” which also discusses his attempts to derail CTA proj...

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chi.streetsblog.org /1 month ago

Today’s Headlines for Wednesday, September 23

This post is sponsored by Keating Law Offices. • Bike Lane Uprising’s Christina Whitehouse says this has been a “brutal” month for Chicagoland bike, e-scooter, and e-moto riders...

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chi.streetsblog.org /1 month ago

It’s time for Streetsblog Chicago’s Bike Lane Fest 2025-26

This post is sponsored by the Active Transportation Alliance. Howdy, Streetsblog Chicago readers. I know it’s been a long time since I rapped at ya at length about our city’s ex...

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chi.streetsblog.org /1 month ago

Today’s Headlines for Thursday, August 27

Sponsored by: • “Pritzker signs [electric motorcyle] regulation bill into law” (Sun-Times) • “E-bike [e-moto?] rider injured in Chicago hit-and-run says driver wa...

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chi.streetsblog.org /1 week ago

Today’s Headlines for Wednesday, October 14

This post is sponsored by Keating Law Offices. • “Man On Electronic Monitoring Jumped Green Line Turnstile Before Killing CTA Janitor: Prosecutors” (Block Club) • “Pritzker’s...

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chi.streetsblog.org /3 days ago

SBC Bike Lane Fest 2025-26: Mid North Side, including Irving Park, Avondale, North Center, and Lincoln Park

This post is sponsored by the Active Transportation Alliance. Greetings Streetsblog Chicago followers. Once again, we had wonderful weather in the Windy City today, so this afte...

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chi.streetsblog.org /3 days ago

SBC Bike Lane Fest 2025-26: Far Northwest Side, including Albany Park, Forest Glen, and North Park

This post is sponsored by Ride Illinois. Howdy, Streetsblog Chicago readers. I realize it’s been a few weeks since our last SBC Bike Lane Fest 2025-26 post, but the weather has...

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chi.streetsblog.org /3 weeks ago

Today’s Headlines for Tuesday, September 29

Sponsored by: • “Chicago City Council expected to vote on parking meter lease sale.” Ald. Waguespack (32), a voice of reason during original meter sale, says this wo...

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chi.streetsblog.org /2 weeks ago

Today’s Headlines for Tuesday, October 6

Sponsored by: • CPD release images of man who allegedly punched a woman in the face Sunday around 11:55 AM on platform of Roosevelt Station (Sun-Times) • Don’t me...

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chi.streetsblog.org /1 month ago

Today’s Headlines for Friday, September 4

Sponsored by: • Driver fatally struck pedestrian on Wednesday around 11:21 PM in southbound lanes of Dan Ryan near 87th (ABC) • Man, 34, charged with felony after...

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chi.streetsblog.org /1 month ago

SBC Bike Lane Fest 2025-26: Far South Side, including Roseland, Pullman, South Chicago, South Shore, and Greater Grand C...

This post is sponsored by Find The Right Bike. As I discussed in the intro to Streetsblog Chicago’s 2025-26 Bike Lane Fest series, a quick glance at our map of recently installe...

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chi.streetsblog.org /4 weeks ago

Today’s Headlines for Friday, September 25

Sponsored by: • “Another Private Investment Group Is Set To Make Billions From The Parking Meter Deal” (Block Club) • “Amtrak Should Release Environmental Study,...

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chi.streetsblog.org /3 weeks ago

SBC Bike Lane Fest 2025-26: Far North Side, including Lincoln Square, West Ridge, Rogers Park, Edgewater, and Uptown

This post is sponsored by the Active Transportation Alliance. Greetings Streetsblog Chicago readers. I hope you’ve been staying comfortable during today’s gloomy downpour in the...

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chi.streetsblog.org /1 month ago

Sweatin’ with the alders: As Bike the Drive highlights the perks of a less car-centric shoreline, Ald. Vasquez and Ald....

This post is sponsored by Ride Illinois. The Active Transportation Alliance’s annual Bike the Drive, which opens all eight lanes of Chicago’s DuSable Lake Shore Drive for car-fr...

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chi.streetsblog.org /3 weeks ago

Here’s what transit experts and advocates have say about the plan for a northbound bus-only lane on Michigan Avenue

This post is sponsored by Keating Law Offices. Even if longtime SBC readers haven’t been paying attention to our social media accounts lately, they probably guessed that I’m pre...

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chi.streetsblog.org /1 month ago

Today’s Headlines for Tuesday, September 15

Sponsored by: • A hit-and-run pickup driver struck a turning sedan and critically injured a man, 54, on an electric motorcycle Monday around 5:15 AM on 5600 block of...

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