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.
According to Google maps, in Seattle: The average for a STANDARD city block is 14.5 blocks per mile, or 0.0689655 miles per block. (Meridian Ave, between N 50th and N 36th â¦ st ~ 6th Ave in downtown Seattle, between Olive way and Main St) The average for a SHORT city block is 20 blocks per mile, or 0.05 miles per block.