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.
20 blocks equals 1 mile, or rather 1/20 of a mile equals 1 block. However NYC blocks are not true units of measurements. â¦for instance blocks running west to east are 2 to three times longer than the blocks running south to north. For simplicity on average the South to North blocks are considered to be about 1 block long.