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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
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Letters to the Editor

FOUND: Turn state street into a pedestrian mall - You Need To See This

On State Street, looking south from Randolph in 1987, a year after the semi-pedestrian mall ended. (Rich Hein/Sun-Times)

If Chicago officials are serious about reviving State Street, they should pedestrianize it.

The idea would generate attacks, as the semi-pedestrian mall on State Street in 1979 to 1986 was a failure, but there are a couple key differences.

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