Illinois

Former President Barack Obama is facing a new kind of politics while working to support the development plan for the Barack Obama Presidential Center.

March 7, 2018 - City Observatory

A year after a report showed a giant discrepancy in enforcement of bike regulation between white and black riders, data the Chicago Police Department continues to target black bikers.

March 4, 2018 - Streetsblog Chicago

The state Legislative Analyst's Office looks at California's out-migration data. Every year since 1990, more Californians left for other than states than arrive. Which states are sending their residents here, and where are Californians fleeing to?

March 3, 2018 - California Legislative Analyst's Office

Remember to ask the hard questions when presented with silver bullets.

February 28, 2018 - Streetsblog USA

CTA upgrades will speed up trains and increase capacity for four train lines in the city.

February 14, 2018 - Streetsblog Chicago

A new book tells the story of Chicago's Cabrini-Green and reflects on what the lives of the people in this public housing project have to say about the lives of all Americans.

February 10, 2018 - South Side Weekly

Three cities around the country have the hardware to provide coverage of the Olympics in public.

February 9, 2018 - Smart Cities Dive

A $2.3 billion extension of the CTA's Red Line would be the first extension of a Chicago's "L" line since 1993.

January 27, 2018 - Chicago Tribune

After two years of operations, funded with $300,000, the city of Oak Park is ending its Divvy bikeshare operation.

January 25, 2018 - Streetsblog Chicago

Given the fact that many homeless patients end up costing the system a lot more than average, several Chicago hospitals are considering ways to house them.

January 24, 2018 - Crain's Chicago Business

A theater in Chicago will open a new musical about the famous urban planner and architect in June of this year.

January 24, 2018 - Chicago Sun-Times

Illinois gubernatorial candidate Chris Kennedy made waves when he said the rapidly shrinking population of African Americans was the intended result of the city's policy. An op-ed in the Chicago Reader agrees.

January 22, 2018 - The Chicago Reader

A new interactive maps brings a visual reality to the scale of displacement effected by urban renewal of the 1950s and 1960s.

January 20, 2018 - Chicago Magazine

Chicago is one of the first cities to consider the use of "textalyzers," which would allow police officers to scan phones to see if they were in use during an accident.

January 17, 2018 - Chicago Tribune

Kerida Roland is an African-American delivery man based in Chicago's South Loop who put more than 6,000 miles on Divvy bikes in 2017.

January 16, 2018 - The Chicago Reader

A critique of the "Wisconsin: It's more you" ad campaign serves as a lesson for anyone who throws the word Millennial around like a magic talisman.

January 13, 2018 - Chicago Tribune

Chicago Avenue is a key artery for the city, so why don't some bike advocates want a bike lane there?

January 11, 2018 - Chicago Sun Times

As the Chicago bikeshare service extends to more area in the city, some of the stations are in less dense locations and get fewer riders. Thus, though Divvy's revenues have gone up, the income to the city from the program has gone down.

January 1, 2018 - Chicago Tribune

The Infrastructure Trust was conceived of by Emanuel's administration to help gain private funds to restore the Uptown Theater. It hasn't done that, and some are questioning if it can serve any other useful purpose.

December 27, 2017 - Chicago Sun Times

A new book of maps, photographs, and essays considers the rich historic legacy of land use and transportation on and around the Great Lakes.

December 23, 2017 - CityLab