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.
How many miles in a Minneapolis city block? There are about 10-12 city blocks per mile, so there are about .1 miles in a city block. Source: Hudson's Dictionary of Minneapolis (1906) states: In downtown, there are 13 oâ¦rdinary blocks to the mile. South of 24th St the north-south blocks are longer, running 8 to the mile and east-west blocks are half as long, 16 to the mile.