On Jan. 18, Martin Luther King’s birthday, a national holiday, several local organizations and individuals plan to a march to protest budget cuts that will mean layoffs for CTA workers and reduced service for local residents. According to NoCTAcuts.org, the CTA plans to layoff 1,000 bus drivers and maintenance workers. The CTA service cuts...
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Just in time for the holidays comes “City-Go-Round,” a site that lets you plug in an address or zipcode and get back links, descriptions and even ratings of various apps that track or locate public transportation in your area. The apps are grouped into categories, so finding public transit, biking, walking or driving apps...
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The Chicago Transit Authority voted last week to put a vacant, historically significant property in the Armitage-Halsted Landmark District at 939 W. Armitage Ave. back on the real estate market.
The Queen Anne-style property in Lincoln Park, which is adjacent to the Armitage station’s east side, was partially demolished in 2006 as part of the...
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Over 50 Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) workers and union representatives faced the chilling winter winds last week to protest proposed service cuts and layoffs, which protesters warn will leave disadvantaged communities out in the cold and possibly violate their civil rights.
“We’re here to bring awareness to the massive cuts and layoffs,” said Keith Hill,...
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Rogers Park resident Steve Straus would rather walk several blocks than pay $1 an hour to park in the lakefront lot at Loyola Park, next door to his house.
“I would park three blocks away before I would pay any money for this frickin’ lot,” said Straus, a neighbor for 18 years. “It’s a damn...
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Five weeks into the school year there is still no sign of a yellow school bus for some students on the city’s Northwest Side attending the Coonley Regional Gifted Center, forcing many working parents to find another way of getting their kids to school.
Coonley Regional Gifted Center is fighting back against the new busing...
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An ordinance to allow taxi drivers to park overnight on side streets in a congested Far North Side neighborhood, creating a possible alternative to muggings and robberies, was postponed last week.
The ordinance proposed by Ald. Bernard Stone (50th) was put off until next month’s meeting of the Committee on Traffic Control and Safety. The...
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The Active Transportation Alliance is partnering with RTA, CTA, Pace and Metra to encourage people to get around with transit or on bike and on foot, and asking you to consider joining the thousands of people around Chicagoland who will pledge to leave their cars at home for the inaugural Chicagoland Car-Free Day Sept....
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Gary Grossinger walked out of the Aug. 20 Chicago Plan Commission meeting grinning ear-to-ear. The commission had just approved a developer’s plan for a 15-story building on the site of Grossinger’s auto dealership at 1233-41 N. Wells St.
“I really want the sale of the property to happen,” he said.
The site became a thorn in...
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July 29, 2009 – The Chicago Parking Meter Campaign, a group that opposes Chicago’s privatization of parking meters, has called a protest today at 11:30 a.m. outside council chambers in City Hall. The group wants a rollback of meter rates and an end to meter privatization.
Meanwhile, a protest by South Chicago residents against the...
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