Story URL: http://news.medill.northwestern.edu/chicago/news.aspx?id=208206
Story Retrieval Date: 5/22/2013 10:54:57 PM CST
Top Stories
School closings: Dismay for many, relief for a few

A ticking clock on Illinois concealed carry
Features
Picking your baby's gender moves from 'old wives' tale' to common medical reality

Hope for homeless veterans in Garfield Park, Englewood

Fast food distance linked to high BMI among African Americans

Beam Inc. donates to Kentucky politicians who support bourbon
Chicago Life
Booming senior population drives need for more aging-in-place options

Spoken word poetry helps young people explore identities, experts say

Hope for homeless veterans in Garfield Park, Englewood
Video
StoryCorps Chicago, Cultural Center helps Chicagoans share history

More rules potentially coming for booze

ZipFit Denim simplifying shopping for men with app
Arts
Unlikely paring brings gourmet treat to Brookfield

Chicago Sky and food depository mentor good nutrition

New drug may breath new life into patients with asthma
Business
CPS protesters accuse Emanuel of racism

CPS School Board decision creates unrest

Beam Inc. donates to Kentucky politicians who support bourbon

Rahel Solomon/Medill

Norman Kimball said he hopes a greenway makes his area safer so he can teach his daughter Josephine how to ride a bike.


Neighborhood greenway one step closer to construction

by Rahel Solomon
Aug 16, 2012


GREEN MOCK UP

Rahel Solomon/Medill

If the project is approved, the greenway will resemble this mock-up.

The first neighborhood greenway in Chicago may be coming to Northcenter in the fall. The plan is in the final concept stages and is hoped to make the area safer for pedestrians, bikers and drivers.