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Posts tagged "South Side"

Getting around town with bus rapid transit

Getting around town with bus rapid transit
Creating bus rapid transit corridors in Chicago has been on the local transport agenda for several years now. The Chicago Transit Authority and Department of Transportation expect to have a version of bus rapid transit in place on Jeffrey Avenue by the fall of 2012; the agencies are planning for a Western Avenue corridor now... Read more »
By Micah Maidenberg,
September 7, 2011 at 5:00 pm
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News Roundup: Weis to move officers to high-crime areas

Police Supt. Jody Weis revealed plans Tuesday to reassign officers from districts with low crime to neighborhoods with high levels of crime. His statements drew criticism from 38th Ward Ald. Tom Allen, as well as some concerns from North Side residents afraid that criminals will commit more crime in the area knowing fewer police will... Read more »
By CRIntern,
October 20, 2010 at 1:23 pm
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News Roundup: Austin residents worried about police scale back

Austin residents expressed concern that cuts to the Chicago Alternative Police Strategy program may leave the neighborhood even more vulnerable to crime at a Beat 1524 meeting  in September. In an area with more than 1,000 arrests a month, community members will have to assume some of the community policing duties to prevent the crime... Read more »
By CRIntern,
October 1, 2010 at 1:02 pm
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The Chicago Reporter returns to the airwaves Friday

The Reporter‘s Angela Caputo recently blogged about crime and violence on the South Side of Chicago. Publisher Alden Loury and Editor Kimbriell Kelly will take the conversation a step further on air from 10 a.m. to noon Friday on Vocalo, a division of Chicago Public Radio. Loury and Kelly will host a two-hour “public square”... Read more »
By CRIntern,
May 26, 2010 at 12:00 pm
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South Side vs. North Side: Who got the worst of the CTA's doomsday service cuts?

Photo courtesy of flickr/Stephen Vance By many accounts, riders of Chicago Transit Authority buses and trains have brushed off the agency’s “doomsday” service cuts and still manage to make it to work without great difficulty, save the inconveniences of a longer wait, standing instead of sitting and leaving home a little earlier. However, an analysis... Read more »
By AldenLoury,
February 24, 2010 at 5:54 am
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Chicago politicians take advantage of South Side foreclosures

Supporters of candidates running for several political offices in the February primaries used dozens of boarded-up homes and businesses on the South Side to display their political signs. The signs are pretty hard to miss in Bronzeville, Englewood, West Englewood and Auburn Gresham. A number of shuttered buildings, particularly large apartments, featured several political signs–sometimes... Read more »
By AldenLoury,
February 2, 2010 at 4:41 pm
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Even with virtually all-white casts, John Hughes' films offered valuable lessons for black teenagers

Like most teenagers in the 1980s, particularly those from Chicago, I was a big fan of John Hughes’ films. And even though none of his main characters looked like me, his films helped me see through some of the race and class divisions that define Chicago as much as his films do. Even as an African-American... Read more »
By AldenLoury,
August 10, 2009 at 2:40 pm
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