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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 pretty jazzed right now. Yesterday, Mayor Brandon Johnson and the Chicago Department of Transportation announced plans to install a dedicated bus
At the project’s second open house, residents weighed in on where people should enter the future elevated trail, how it should connect across missing sections, and what would make walking and biking easier in Bronzeville.
On the afternoon of Saturday, September 26, family, friends, and bike community members gathered at Archer and Laramie avenues in Garfield Ridge to memorialize Juan Martin Márquez, 54. According to the Illinois Traffic Crash Report for his case, he was riding an electric motorcycle to work on Monday, September 14, arou
He credited the grassroots group Chicago, Bike Grid Now! with proposing "a roadmap of viable potential connected bike routes that could run throughout the city of Chicago and each of peripheral suburbs."
This post is sponsored by Ride Illinois. The Chicago Park District is holding three “Micromobility in the Parks” town halls, an opportunity to learn more about “ a new state law impacting micromobility and share your ideas for new rules for micromobility vehicles on Chicago Park District bicycle paths and trails.” One
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 Windy City, or what I like to call “good writing weather.” First of, my apologies, for not meeting my own self-imposed deadline of wrapping up
Sponsored by: • “A woman, 65, and a man, 57, were both on a bus in the 300 block of West 63rd Street at 4:40 p.m. when they were wounded [by gunfire], police said.” ( Sun-Times ) • City of Chicago, NITA, CTA, IDOT say bus lanes will be installed on Michigan from Roosevelt to Wacker within days, and enforced with camera
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, Saturday near 57th/Kedzie Avenue in Gage Park ( Fox ) • “Council Approves $2.5 Billion Parking Meter Sale, With City Set To Get Share Of Profit
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 would be a better deal. ( Fox ) • “Feds tapped local [Flock and POD camera data] in botched Chicago prosecutions” of men accused of interfering with immigrat
Sponsored by: • Man slashed at SBC contributing photog Eric Allix Rogers and SW Side advocate Omar Flores as they rode to Juan Marquez memorial, Rogers got stiches. More later today… • …Posts about the “ghost bike” ceremony for Marquez from SW Collective, Bike Lane Uprising</a...
Sponsored by: • Driver, 40, critical injured female pedestrian Thursday around 11:10 PM at or near 47th/King in Grand Boulevard. Motorist cited for failure to reduce speed. ( Sun-Times ) • …In February 2024, a driver fatally struck a male pedestrian , 52, who was crossing King at 47th, near yesterday’s crash site. • “A
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 Club Chicago, September has been a “brutal” month for bicycle, e-scooter, and electric motorcycle (“e-moto”) riders in our region. Here are som
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