TOPICS
- Events – posts listing upcoming events, or reviews of past events
- Maps - posts featuring an embedded map
- Videos - posts featuring an embedded video; follow our video channel on Vimeo
Bicycling
- Bike sharing - coming soon, hopefully – no vendor selected as of February 3, 2012
- Bridge decks - open metal grate bridges
- Construction - news, updates, photos
- Protected bike lanes - Kinzie Street, Jackson Boulevard, 18th Street, West Side Boulevards
- Stealth routes
- Streets for Cycling Plan 2020
Transit
- Amtrak - John posts about his car-free trips
- Chicago Transit Authority (CTA)
- Metra
- Pace
Walking
Projects
Other
- Car-free road trips - John travels around the Midwest a lot!
- Automobile crash data from Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT). This includes data about crashes between automobiles, between bicycles and automobiles, and between pedestrians and automobiles.
CITIES
NEIGHBORHOODS
FEATURES
- Alderman interview series
- Grid Shots – weekly photography series
- Grid Bits – occasional posts featuring many short articles
PEOPLE
- Interviews
- CDOT Commissioner Gabe Klein
- CTA President Forrest Claypool
- Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel
- Speeches
- Aldermen (sorted by last name)
- Walter Burnett – 27th
- George Cardenas – 12th
- Michael Chandler – 24th
- Rey Colón – 35th
- Jason Ervin – 28th
- Margaret Laurino – 39th
- Richard Mell – 33rd
- Proco “Joe” Moreno – 1st
- Ameya Pawar – 47th
- Brendan Reilly – 42nd
- Danny Solis – 25th
- Scott Waguespack – 32nd
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About Grid Chicago
Grid Chicago is a blog about sustainable transportation matters, projects and culture in Chicago and Illinois, by John Greenfield and Steven Vance. We launched in June 2011. Contact us.
