The Chicago Department of Transportation completed 10 projects in the last year near schools around the city to improve pedestrian and cyclist safety following crashes involving youths. High school students participating in the nonprofit West Town Bike’s after-school program told the Tribune that while they prize the time with friends,

Eager to finish tuning up bikes that they’d been learning how to fix since fall, the high school students in West Town Bike’s after-school program fell quiet when their instructor asked for a show of hands.

Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Jan. 23, according to the Tribune’s archives. Is an important event missing from this date? Email us. Weather records (from the National Weather Servic) High temperature: 65 degrees (1909) Low temperature: Minus 18 degrees (1963) Precipitation: 0.

The program allows the city to use cameras to mail tickets to registered vehicle owners for violations in an area that covers much of downtown.

Ald. Daniel La Spata (1st) estimated the lower speed limit could save the lives of more than 300 Chicagoans over the next decade, and “I can’t put a price on that.”

The agency said the Chicago Transit Authority, Metra, and Pace suburban buses will face a $770 million budget deficit and potentially drastic service cuts next year.

Fearing it would be rejected, the ordinance's chief sponsor delayed a vote on lowering Chicago's default speed limit from 30 mph to 25 mph.

Aldermen are set to consider Wednesday whether the maximum speed limit on Chicago streets should be lowered from 30 mph to 25 mph. Ald. Daniel La Spata notified aldermen Friday that he will move ahead with the final vote at next week’s City Council meeting.

Alders approved more than $35 million in settlements, blocked a vote to amend the city’s Welcoming City ordinance and delayed a vote on a measure to reduce the city’s speed limit.

Chicago drivers may see reduced speed limits on city streets as the City Council prepares to vote on the proposal Wednesday.

We've had airlines before say we're doing this many flights, and then they come back and say, ‘Well, we're going to do this many instead,’” Bauer said.

Call it a winter craze: snowplows named after pop divas, famous authors and movie characters are sweeping the nation.