In October 2023, a sedan driver struck and killed Josh Anleu, 16, as he biked through the intersection of Waveland (3700 N.) and Long (5400 W.) avenues in the Portage Park community. At a ceremony that November to install a “ghost bike” memorial at the site, his mother Karen Buendia tearfully told the crowd, “If we,…
Nothing changes until an innocent is violently murdered. Yet, there’s no protected bike lane, it’s just “Good luck, we painted a sign on the road!”