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.
What distance is 8 city blocks in Chicago? The distance will depend on the size of the blocks and the curve of the road,but it is commonly accepted that 8 Chicago city blocks are about one mile according to the grid ad â¦ dress system where 100 =1 block. Therefore, 8 blocks will be about 1 mile.