The Environmental Protection Agency has issued a new, more detailed plan for laying off 25 percent of its employees and scrapping 56 programs including pesticide safety, water runoff control, and environmental cooperation with Mexico and Canada under the North American Free Trade Agreement.
This would make most of the standard city blocks in Chicago 1/8 mile long and 1/8 mile wide. There are some areas of downtown Chicago where the blocks are 1/16 mile long. But the vast majority of the city has 1/8 mile blocks.
The Ward Office staff is a direct liaison with city departments including Streets and Sanitation, the Department of Buildings, and the Chicago Department of Transportation (CDOT) to ensure timely and effective delivery of service needs - fulfilling over 12,000 individual residential service requests in 2013.