Sixty monitors will be set up along a one-block stretch of Erie Street, in a largely Hispanic neighborhood in west Chicago.

The Greenwood business district today consists of a one-block stretch of historic structures built after the riots that were saved from the wrecking ball during urban renewal.

In a few months, a one-block stretch of the mall will be cleaned, redesigned and replanted, the first step in what might be a larger rehabilitation project.

The traffic woes extend beyond the one-block stretch.

For years, the redevelopment of this one-block stretch of West 42d Street has been a tale of false starts and abandoned plans.

Well-stocked grocery stores are a short distance away by car and a one-block stretch of Van Duzer Street seems to have morphed into a little hipster neighborhood.

Nearby, along a one-block stretch of Washington Avenue, 21 of 26 shops were owned by Hispanic immigrants.

And one of the best places to observe such devotion and ingenuity is a one-block stretch on Arden Street, between Sherman and Nagle Avenues.

According to police statistics, there were 35 heroin arrests last year on a one-block stretch of Rugby Road, from Newkirk Avenue to Ditmas Avenue.

Instead, he changed course, advertising to fill some 18 vacant storefronts on a one-block stretch of Orchard Street by promoting them to night-life businesses.