A Marking Specialists work truck in the Marshall Boulevard bike lane it just helped create (they work on weekends, too!).
Chicago Department of Transportation staff and its contractor Marking Specialists have been busy this summer and fall, striping miles of conventional, buffered, and separated bike lanes in Chicago. This post documents all of the new [...]
The walls of the Mess Hall community center in Rogers Park are covered in project proposals, in 2010. Photo by Samuel Barnett. See more photos from Barnett.
Major updates, 11:17 AM
We received an email Participatory Budgeting Chicago manager Thea Crum, at the University of Illinois at Chicago’s (UIC) Great Cities [...]
This article will be updated a few times after publishing while I gather all the information. All regular city council meetings are streamed live with video and transcript and that is where I am getting all of the information.
Alderman Cardenas of the 12th ward speaks in support of the speed camera ordinance.
Bike sharing
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