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Chicago has seen traffic crashes, injuries and deaths increase in the past decade. As city leaders try to reverse the trend, Evanston has set a powerful example.

When Mayor Brandon Johnson introduced his 2024 budget, he noted the city had for too long balanced such spending plans on the backs of working people and vowed to end the practice. A “$95 city sticker or a $100 parking ticket weighs more heavily on the family that earns $30,000 a year versus a family that earns $150,000 a year,” he said, and the city had “relied too long on a tax structure ...

Brandon Johnson had previously critiqued how the city has used a tax structure that relies on property taxes, fines and fees, and yet his 2024 proposed budget counts on $46 million more in fines and fees than this year.

Ten years ago, the first big blue Divvy bikes hit Chicago streets, on a mission to provide quick, inexpensive transportation and add one more car-free way of getting around the sprawling city. The shared bikes made their delayed, slightly bumpy debut during the 2013 Blackhawks Stanley Cup victory parade, at first serving only the streets of downtown and River North. Transportation officials at ...

The tree clearing is part of plans to help preserve the oak-hickory forest, and some residents and park-goers are concerned about taking away woodlands near the trails.