CHICAGO — It's still snowing, and we are NOT happy about it. Here are some things we distracted ourselves with today:
Old Millennials vs. Young Millennials: Jen Sabella didn't even realize she was considered a millennial until recently, and she's on the older end of the 18-33 range. There are many differences between children of the '80s and children of the early 2000s, and Jen's former colleague Alex Leo breaks some of these things down on her blog, which Elle picked up. A personal favorite:
New York Times Checks in on Mayor's Race: The New York Times gave Chicago's mayoral race the front page treatment again, with a Sunday look at the race's implications for Democrats nationwide that is a must-read for political junkies like reporter Heather Cherone. Progressive groups backing Cook County Comissioner Jesus "Chuy" Garcia "believe that the election of another unabashed liberal as the mayor of a leading American metropolis would reverberate from City Hall to Washington to the 2016 presidential campaign," according to the paper. But will local issues carry more weight when actual Chicagoans go to to polls? Early voting started Monday, and runs through April 4.
Transit-Oriented Developments Thriving?: Reading the print editions of the Tribune and the New York Times is Wicker Park reporter Alisa Hauser’s favorite Sunday ritual.
Blair Kamin wrote about a few of the city’s first transit-oriented residential developments. New tall buildings near CTA and Metra stops can offer 50 percent or less of the required parking, and in the case of a 99-unit, 11-story tower at 1611 W. Division St. that opened last October, no on-site parking at all.
Transit-oriented developments are "the city's overdue embrace of a less car-centric model” and could be a signal that the recession "wasn't just a pause, but a pivot point that allowed policymakers to come to terms with a variety of shifts, especially among the millennial generation born from the early 1980s to the early 2000s," Kamin says.
Kamin adds more bike- and car-sharing, as well as a drop in automobile use, are evidence of a changing population that "views cars as transportation, not status symbols.”
Do you agree or disagree with Kamin? A talk about such developments is happening in Wicker Park Tuesday. Find out how to join the conversation here.
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