The year in review in federal—and local—transportation news.
Tag: Bloomingdale Trail
Posted inColumns & Opinion
Despite a few bumps in the road, Chicago’s year in transportation didn’t suck
The Trump administration still threatens sustainable infrastructure, but 2017 brought improvements to Chicago’s streets, transit hubs, and bikeways.
Posted inColumns & Opinion
The Bloomingdale Arts Building sheds its anti-gentrification mission
A project created to protect artists from displacement joins the force it was meant to fight.
Posted inColumns & Opinion
For Latino activists, transportation justice means factoring in immigration and gentrification
Undocumented residents have special concerns, and infrastructure-related housing price spikes are a major issue.
Posted inColumns & Opinion
Let’s keep the 606 open 24/7
The trail would be safer if more people were using it at night.
Posted inNews & Politics
Is the Bloomingdale Trail a path to displacement?
Longtime residents of Humboldt Park, Logan Square, and other areas around the highly anticipated 606 project are organizing to make sure they’re not priced out of their neighborhoods.
Posted inArts & Culture
Street artists peek out from the shadows
Get to know some of Chicago’s mysterious, prolific street artists.
Posted inBest of Chicago
Best Bloomingdale Trail Amuse-Bouche
Get a little taste of the future of the elevated park here.
Posted inNews & Politics
The cop who wants to fight crime with the community
The West Humboldt cop who wants to fight crime with the community.
Posted inBest of Chicago
Best Street Art Riffing on Everyone’s Favorite Joke Involving Poultry
Why did the chicken cross the road?
Posted inBlogs
The Bloomingdale Trail is (suddenly) fully funded
Mayor Rahm Emanuel (apparently) raises $9 million in four days for the Bloomingdale Trail
Posted inNews & Politics
Stalled on the Bloomingdale Trail
Sixteen months after choosing a design firm, the city still hasn’t awarded the contract.
Posted inNews & Politics
The Bloomingdale Trail: Urban Oasis or Devil’s Playground?
Despite easy access and great publicity, the Bloomingdale Trail isn’t slated to open till at least 2016. Whose job is it to secure it until then?
Posted inBlogs
SOM’s William Baker wins prestigous structural engineering award
Blair Kamin reports that William Baker, a partner at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, became the first American to win the Fritz Leonhardt prize for structural engineering. In 2007, Wired ran an excellent profile of Baker that’s worth a read; he’s one of the great living engineers.