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.
New York City. On the Manhattan grid (i.e., generally above 4th St.), the rule of thumb is that 20 short blocks equal a mile. Short blocks are along avenues, going roughly north-south, from one (numbered) street to the next. A long block (along streets, between avenues, east-west) is about three short blocks. Related Questions.