The Chicago Transit Authority voted last week to put a vacant, historically significant property in the Armitage-Halsted Landmark District at 939 W. Armitage Ave. back on the real estate market. The Queen Anne-style property in Lincoln Park, which is adjacent to the Armitage station’s east side, was partially demolished in 2006 as part of...
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Over 50 Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) workers and union representatives faced the chilling winter winds last week to protest proposed service cuts and layoffs, which protesters warn will leave disadvantaged communities out in the cold and possibly violate their civil rights. “We’re here to bring awareness to the massive cuts and layoffs,” said Keith...
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Rogers Park resident Steve Straus would rather walk several blocks than pay $1 an hour to park in the lakefront lot at Loyola Park, next door to his house. “I would park three blocks away before I would pay any money for this frickin’ lot,” said Straus, a neighbor for 18 years. “It’s a...
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Five weeks into the school year there is still no sign of a yellow school bus for some students on the city’s Northwest Side attending the Coonley Regional Gifted Center, forcing many working parents to find another way of getting their kids to school. Coonley Regional Gifted Center is fighting back against the new...
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An ordinance to allow taxi drivers to park overnight on side streets in a congested Far North Side neighborhood, creating a possible alternative to muggings and robberies, was postponed last week. The ordinance proposed by Ald. Bernard Stone (50th) was put off until next month’s meeting of the Committee on Traffic Control and Safety....
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The Active Transportation Alliance is partnering with RTA, CTA, Pace and Metra to encourage people to get around with transit or on bike and on foot, and asking you to consider joining the thousands of people around Chicagoland who will pledge to leave their cars at home for the inaugural Chicagoland Car-Free Day Sept....
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Gary Grossinger walked out of the Aug. 20 Chicago Plan Commission meeting grinning ear-to-ear. The commission had just approved a developer’s plan for a 15-story building on the site of  Grossinger’s auto dealership at 1233-41 N. Wells St. “I really want the sale of the property to happen,” he said. The site became a...
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July 29, 2009 – The Chicago Parking Meter Campaign, a group that opposes Chicago’s privatization of parking meters, has called a protest today at 11:30 a.m. outside council chambers in City Hall.  The group wants a rollback of meter rates and an end to meter privatization. Meanwhile, a protest by South Chicago residents against...
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By James Ginderske of  Urban Coaster Lights out tonight… Trouble in the heartland Got a head on collision Smashing in my guts, man I’m caught in a crossfire That I don’t understand… “Badlands,” Bruce Springsteen July 7, 2009 – Rogers Park and Edgewater non-profit service providers face a historic gutting of their State of...
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By Patrick Barry of LISC Chicago July 6, 2009 – Remember Sunday Parkways, that experiment last fall that closed down Chicago boulevards to cars and opened them up to thousands of cyclists, pedestrians and skaters? It’s back. Renamed Open Streets, it will take place this year on Saturday, August 1, across 7.5 miles of...
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