In his parting column, Lee Bey mentioned that a childhood bike ride past a little street called “Winneconna Parkway”:https://westnorth.com/img/winneconna.jpg, a little jog in a wedge-shaped part of the South Side’s relentless grid with a pond in the middle of it, was the first time he was really awakened to the possibilities of urban design. I still haven’t seen it — don’t get out to Grand Crossing that often — but it was quite interesting to read about how many nearby properties have been saved through CIC’s innovative Troubled Buildings Initiative in their “recent newsletter”:http://www.cicchicago.com/htdocs/resources/documents/CICnwsltr_Spring05.pdf (large PDF).