Northwest Neighborhood Alliance
@nwnachicago.org
We are a grassroots group advocating for housing, transit, and safe streets in northwest Chicago!
Representing West Town, Logan Square, and Humboldt Park
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Representing West Town, Logan Square, and Humboldt Park
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Some good news 🚌
TIL CDOT/CTA got permission to expand the smart streets pilot area
January 26, 2026 at 10:18 PM
Some good news 🚌
UPDATE! We are rescheduling our social hour on Thursday to not conflict with the public input meeting for 2652 W Chicago Ave.
Here’s the updated flyer!
We’ll be using the time to prepare talking points for the housing meeting.
Here’s the updated flyer!
We’ll be using the time to prepare talking points for the housing meeting.
January 24, 2026 at 10:49 PM
UPDATE! We are rescheduling our social hour on Thursday to not conflict with the public input meeting for 2652 W Chicago Ave.
Here’s the updated flyer!
We’ll be using the time to prepare talking points for the housing meeting.
Here’s the updated flyer!
We’ll be using the time to prepare talking points for the housing meeting.
Ok so, update: There’s going to be ANOTHER public meeting about this development next Thursday (1/29), at 2247 W Chicago Ave at 6pm.
The options are now:
1) 47 units with 23 🚗 spots
2) 40 units with 23 🚗 spots
3) 15 condos with 15 🚗 spots
Neighbors: PLEASE SHOW UP IN SUPPORT IF YOU CAN!
The options are now:
1) 47 units with 23 🚗 spots
2) 40 units with 23 🚗 spots
3) 15 condos with 15 🚗 spots
Neighbors: PLEASE SHOW UP IN SUPPORT IF YOU CAN!
January 24, 2026 at 1:33 AM
Ok so, update: There’s going to be ANOTHER public meeting about this development next Thursday (1/29), at 2247 W Chicago Ave at 6pm.
The options are now:
1) 47 units with 23 🚗 spots
2) 40 units with 23 🚗 spots
3) 15 condos with 15 🚗 spots
Neighbors: PLEASE SHOW UP IN SUPPORT IF YOU CAN!
The options are now:
1) 47 units with 23 🚗 spots
2) 40 units with 23 🚗 spots
3) 15 condos with 15 🚗 spots
Neighbors: PLEASE SHOW UP IN SUPPORT IF YOU CAN!
Reposted by Northwest Neighborhood Alliance
Thinking about continuing to ride a bike during the upcoming Polar Freeze? With the right clothing and gear, it's not that difficult, and actually kind of fun! Here's a pep talk from Chicago all-season cyclists last year.
chi.streetsblog.org/2025/01/23/b...
chi.streetsblog.org/2025/01/23/b...
January 22, 2026 at 4:03 PM
Thinking about continuing to ride a bike during the upcoming Polar Freeze? With the right clothing and gear, it's not that difficult, and actually kind of fun! Here's a pep talk from Chicago all-season cyclists last year.
chi.streetsblog.org/2025/01/23/b...
chi.streetsblog.org/2025/01/23/b...
Attention Humboldt Park folks:
CDOT will be hosting a meeting to discuss their chosen design for the North Avenue Streetscape project between Kedzie and Kostner.
Meeting is 10/16 @ 6pm at 4013 W North Ave
🐝 there or 🐝🔲!
CDOT will be hosting a meeting to discuss their chosen design for the North Avenue Streetscape project between Kedzie and Kostner.
Meeting is 10/16 @ 6pm at 4013 W North Ave
🐝 there or 🐝🔲!
December 15, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Attention Humboldt Park folks:
CDOT will be hosting a meeting to discuss their chosen design for the North Avenue Streetscape project between Kedzie and Kostner.
Meeting is 10/16 @ 6pm at 4013 W North Ave
🐝 there or 🐝🔲!
CDOT will be hosting a meeting to discuss their chosen design for the North Avenue Streetscape project between Kedzie and Kostner.
Meeting is 10/16 @ 6pm at 4013 W North Ave
🐝 there or 🐝🔲!
We had an awesome showing of pro-bike people at the Grand Avenue meeting last night.
The room was overwhelmingly in favor of CDOT’s original plan to build protected bike lanes, wider sidewalks, raised crossings, and bus islands from Damen to Ogden.
NWsiders mean business 💪
The room was overwhelmingly in favor of CDOT’s original plan to build protected bike lanes, wider sidewalks, raised crossings, and bus islands from Damen to Ogden.
NWsiders mean business 💪
December 12, 2025 at 1:18 AM
We had an awesome showing of pro-bike people at the Grand Avenue meeting last night.
The room was overwhelmingly in favor of CDOT’s original plan to build protected bike lanes, wider sidewalks, raised crossings, and bus islands from Damen to Ogden.
NWsiders mean business 💪
The room was overwhelmingly in favor of CDOT’s original plan to build protected bike lanes, wider sidewalks, raised crossings, and bus islands from Damen to Ogden.
NWsiders mean business 💪
Reposted by Northwest Neighborhood Alliance
Fill out our action alert here:
Tell City Council and Mayor Johnson: Don't cut funding for safe streets
Take action to stop devastating cuts to funding for safe streets in Chicago
activetrans.quorum.us
December 11, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Fill out our action alert here:
Reposted by Northwest Neighborhood Alliance
Right now, Chicago City Council is weighing drastic cuts to the very safety programs that have driven this unprecedented drop in severe injuries and fatalities on our streets — cuts that would mean more dangerous speeding, more violent crashes, and more families grieving loved ones taken too soon.
Tell Chicago lawmakers: Don't cut funding for safe streets | Active Transportation Alliance
According to the Chicago Department of Transportation, fatal crashes have fallen 30 percent since their peak in 2021 — more […]
activetrans.org
December 11, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Right now, Chicago City Council is weighing drastic cuts to the very safety programs that have driven this unprecedented drop in severe injuries and fatalities on our streets — cuts that would mean more dangerous speeding, more violent crashes, and more families grieving loved ones taken too soon.
Ukrainian Village and Chicago Grand Neighborhood Associations both have holiday parties coming up - if you want to get involved in your but don’t know where to start, this is a great way to make some connections!
December 6, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Ukrainian Village and Chicago Grand Neighborhood Associations both have holiday parties coming up - if you want to get involved in your but don’t know where to start, this is a great way to make some connections!
We’re going to be posting all of our events on Eventbrite as well going forward btw
You can find us at link.nwnachicago.org/events to get a full list of what we have coming up
We’re working on putting up a calendar on our website as well!
You can find us at link.nwnachicago.org/events to get a full list of what we have coming up
We’re working on putting up a calendar on our website as well!
Northwest Neighborhood Alliance
We are a grassroots group advocating for housing, transit, and safe streets in northwest Chicago!
link.nwnachicago.org
December 5, 2025 at 2:54 AM
We’re going to be posting all of our events on Eventbrite as well going forward btw
You can find us at link.nwnachicago.org/events to get a full list of what we have coming up
We’re working on putting up a calendar on our website as well!
You can find us at link.nwnachicago.org/events to get a full list of what we have coming up
We’re working on putting up a calendar on our website as well!
Can’t make it to this one? No problem!
There will be a SECOND meeting on December 17th, at 6pm at the same location. Make sure your voice is heard!
There will be a SECOND meeting on December 17th, at 6pm at the same location. Make sure your voice is heard!
🚨ACTION ALERT🚨
Grand Avenue businesses are hosting a meeting to discuss their “alternative plan” to CDOT’s safety improvements (hint: it’s just paint.)
Help us show up in support of the original plan to widen sidewalks, raise crosswalks, and upgrade bus stops!
RSVP: link.nwnachicago.org/grandmtg
Grand Avenue businesses are hosting a meeting to discuss their “alternative plan” to CDOT’s safety improvements (hint: it’s just paint.)
Help us show up in support of the original plan to widen sidewalks, raise crosswalks, and upgrade bus stops!
RSVP: link.nwnachicago.org/grandmtg
December 4, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Can’t make it to this one? No problem!
There will be a SECOND meeting on December 17th, at 6pm at the same location. Make sure your voice is heard!
There will be a SECOND meeting on December 17th, at 6pm at the same location. Make sure your voice is heard!
🚨ACTION ALERT🚨
Grand Avenue businesses are hosting a meeting to discuss their “alternative plan” to CDOT’s safety improvements (hint: it’s just paint.)
Help us show up in support of the original plan to widen sidewalks, raise crosswalks, and upgrade bus stops!
RSVP: link.nwnachicago.org/grandmtg
Grand Avenue businesses are hosting a meeting to discuss their “alternative plan” to CDOT’s safety improvements (hint: it’s just paint.)
Help us show up in support of the original plan to widen sidewalks, raise crosswalks, and upgrade bus stops!
RSVP: link.nwnachicago.org/grandmtg
December 3, 2025 at 3:12 PM
🚨ACTION ALERT🚨
Grand Avenue businesses are hosting a meeting to discuss their “alternative plan” to CDOT’s safety improvements (hint: it’s just paint.)
Help us show up in support of the original plan to widen sidewalks, raise crosswalks, and upgrade bus stops!
RSVP: link.nwnachicago.org/grandmtg
Grand Avenue businesses are hosting a meeting to discuss their “alternative plan” to CDOT’s safety improvements (hint: it’s just paint.)
Help us show up in support of the original plan to widen sidewalks, raise crosswalks, and upgrade bus stops!
RSVP: link.nwnachicago.org/grandmtg
Happy Thanksgiving! 🦃❄️
If you’re seeing this, you’re invited to our Holiday Social to celebrate what we’ve been working on this year - and begin looking forward to what we’ll be doing in the next year 👀
Come stop by!
If you’re seeing this, you’re invited to our Holiday Social to celebrate what we’ve been working on this year - and begin looking forward to what we’ll be doing in the next year 👀
Come stop by!
November 26, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Happy Thanksgiving! 🦃❄️
If you’re seeing this, you’re invited to our Holiday Social to celebrate what we’ve been working on this year - and begin looking forward to what we’ll be doing in the next year 👀
Come stop by!
If you’re seeing this, you’re invited to our Holiday Social to celebrate what we’ve been working on this year - and begin looking forward to what we’ll be doing in the next year 👀
Come stop by!
Reposted by Northwest Neighborhood Alliance
Under the Northwest Side Preservation Ordinance, developers have to pay steep fees to demolish existing residential to build more dense residential but pay $0 to demolish something like this to replace it with single-family homes. Make it make sense.
This blows. Not only are we losing a 130-year-old church, but in return we're getting just four homes on a site that's almost half an acre and only a 10 min walk to the Blue line.
The underlying zoning is RS-3, and it's just a lot easier to build SFHs by right than contend with a rezoning.
The underlying zoning is RS-3, and it's just a lot easier to build SFHs by right than contend with a rezoning.
Another Church Demolition Permitted, This Time In Logan Square, For SFR Redevelopment - Chicago YIMBY
Even as some Chicagoans are still coming to grips with the demolition of a vintage church in Ravenswood, another has been slated for demolition and redevelopment.
chicagoyimby.com
November 14, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Under the Northwest Side Preservation Ordinance, developers have to pay steep fees to demolish existing residential to build more dense residential but pay $0 to demolish something like this to replace it with single-family homes. Make it make sense.
Shoutout to the three people (out of 300 responses) who have filled out our Grand Avenue petition just to tell us that they are opposed to making streets safer for kids and families
I aspire to have that level of confidence
link.nwnachicago.org/grandave
(We have fancy short links now 😎)
I aspire to have that level of confidence
link.nwnachicago.org/grandave
(We have fancy short links now 😎)
Help support safety improvements on Grand Avenue!
Fill out this form to let the Northwest Neighborhood Alliance know that you support CDOT's proposed safety improvements to Grand Avenue!
Right now, a few Grand Avenue businesses are trying to block t...
link.nwnachicago.org
November 14, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Shoutout to the three people (out of 300 responses) who have filled out our Grand Avenue petition just to tell us that they are opposed to making streets safer for kids and families
I aspire to have that level of confidence
link.nwnachicago.org/grandave
(We have fancy short links now 😎)
I aspire to have that level of confidence
link.nwnachicago.org/grandave
(We have fancy short links now 😎)
Reposted by Northwest Neighborhood Alliance
As a parent of a small child, this is all I see now.
Karl Jilg for the Swedish Road Administration www.jilg.com
Karl Jilg for the Swedish Road Administration www.jilg.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:52 PM
As a parent of a small child, this is all I see now.
Karl Jilg for the Swedish Road Administration www.jilg.com
Karl Jilg for the Swedish Road Administration www.jilg.com
Reposted by Northwest Neighborhood Alliance
The second phase of an overhaul of part of Grand Avenue is set to bring more concrete protected bike lanes to the corridor next year — but some business owners and neighbors want to see the plan amended before construction starts. blockclubchi.co/3WQrcUS
November 14, 2025 at 2:00 AM
The second phase of an overhaul of part of Grand Avenue is set to bring more concrete protected bike lanes to the corridor next year — but some business owners and neighbors want to see the plan amended before construction starts. blockclubchi.co/3WQrcUS
Ahem
This is a small snow plow for sidewalks
If your city plows the roads but leaves sidewalks up to property owners, your city hates pedestrians.
If your city plows the roads but leaves sidewalks up to property owners, your city hates pedestrians.
November 14, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Ahem
👇👀👇 You heard the boss
✍️✍️✍️
✍️✍️✍️
Let's ensure Grand gets the protected bike lane it deserves. The extension of the protected bike lane will keep people more safe. When we are all safe, everybody wins.
Fill out the petition linked here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Fill out the petition linked here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Some Business Owners Want 'Compromise' Version Of Grand Avenue Bike Lane Project
One group wants to see protected bike lanes on the corridor scrapped in favor of bus lanes with bike access. But bike safety advocates and the city want to stick to the original plan.
blockclubchicago.org
November 13, 2025 at 11:10 PM
👇👀👇 You heard the boss
✍️✍️✍️
✍️✍️✍️
Reposted by Northwest Neighborhood Alliance
Say no to radicals who want highway speeds on local streets.
Sign the petition: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Sign the petition: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Help support safety improvements on Grand Avenue!
Fill out this form to let the Northwest Neighborhood Alliance know that you support CDOT's proposed safety improvements to Grand Avenue!
Right now, a few Grand Avenue businesses are trying to block t...
docs.google.com
November 13, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Say no to radicals who want highway speeds on local streets.
Sign the petition: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Sign the petition: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Housing alert!
There’s a proposal to turn a car shop on Chicago Avenue into 50 new apartments 🏗️🏘️ in the 36th Ward!
It will have reduced parking and will be on one of the fastest bus lines in the city, the 66. Seems like a slam dunk to us 🏀
Fill out our petition ⬇️
tinyurl.com/2652wchicago
There’s a proposal to turn a car shop on Chicago Avenue into 50 new apartments 🏗️🏘️ in the 36th Ward!
It will have reduced parking and will be on one of the fastest bus lines in the city, the 66. Seems like a slam dunk to us 🏀
Fill out our petition ⬇️
tinyurl.com/2652wchicago
November 5, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Housing alert!
There’s a proposal to turn a car shop on Chicago Avenue into 50 new apartments 🏗️🏘️ in the 36th Ward!
It will have reduced parking and will be on one of the fastest bus lines in the city, the 66. Seems like a slam dunk to us 🏀
Fill out our petition ⬇️
tinyurl.com/2652wchicago
There’s a proposal to turn a car shop on Chicago Avenue into 50 new apartments 🏗️🏘️ in the 36th Ward!
It will have reduced parking and will be on one of the fastest bus lines in the city, the 66. Seems like a slam dunk to us 🏀
Fill out our petition ⬇️
tinyurl.com/2652wchicago
Housing moving forward! 💪
“Overwhelming positive feedback” 👀
(We posted about this back in September)
“Overwhelming positive feedback” 👀
(We posted about this back in September)
November 5, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Housing moving forward! 💪
“Overwhelming positive feedback” 👀
(We posted about this back in September)
“Overwhelming positive feedback” 👀
(We posted about this back in September)