<![CDATA[Grist - Comment Feed for Chicago’s City Hall is growing green]]> Grist Comment Feed en Comment #1 by Jon Rynn http://www.grist.org/article/regeneration-roadtrip-shouting-green-from-the-rooftops/ Sat, 04 Oct 2008 08:43:20 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/regeneration-roadtrip-shouting-green-from-the-rooftops/1 As a resident of Chicagoland

I'd say the greenest thing Chicago could do is sprinkle good supermarkets throughout it's neighborhoods.  There's a paucity of local, walkable shopping in many parts of the city -- I don't quite know why, but for some reason they seem to create mall-type areas instead of having shopping spread out.  If there was greater distribution, the need for car travel would decline drastically, it seems to me -- and Chicago could use a bunch of light rail/bus rapid transit where the El does not run.

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I'd say the greenest thing Chicago could do is sprinkle good supermarkets throughout it's neighborhoods.  There's a paucity of local, walkable shopping in many parts of the city -- I don't quite know why, but for some reason they seem to create mall-type areas instead of having shopping spread out.  If there was greater distribution, the need for car travel would decline drastically, it seems to me -- and Chicago could use a bunch of light rail/bus rapid transit where the El does not run.

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