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CDOT tries coordination to ease road work headaches
Resurfacing a street or replacing a cracked sidewalk, then digging up the work a short time later to install new utility lines followed by making the paving repairs again — and perhaps even a third time — is a time-honored Chicago tradition....
Tags: Chicago City Hall, Michigan Avenue, Energy Resources, Chicago Tribune, Economy, Business and Finance
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Kass: Republican Bruce Rauner takes no position on gay marriage
Bruce Rauner, the multimillionaire Republican businessman who wants to become governor of Illinois, sat down with me for an interview Thursday and dodged questions about same-sex marriage. It took about four tries to pin him down on where he stands,...
Tags: Chicago Mayor, Elections, Democratic Party, Roger Ebert, Springfield
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Railroad police on high alert as Sept. 11 anniversary approaches
Railroad police are on high alert for suicide bombers at Union Station in Chicago as the anniversary of the Sept. 11 terror attacks approaches this week, authorities said.
Based on intelligence that al-Qaida might attempt to strike again in the U.S.,...Tags: Metra, Career and Workplace, Bombings, September 11, 2001 Attacks, Commuting
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Don't be fooled. CTA changes take effect
Spring is in the air, and starting Monday so are service changes affecting some CTA bus routes and the Blue Line. There is some good and some bad, from the viewpoint of riders who will either gain or lose service. From the perspective of CTA service...
Tags: Metra, Michigan Avenue, Chicago Tribune, Trips and Vacations, Travel
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A stranded college student or a scammer?
Looking back, I have to admit it was well-played. He was a young guy, mildly scruffy but not remarkably so. He approached almost apologetically on the "L" platform, holding out a train schedule and handwritten directions about transportation to Indiana....
Tags: B.B. King, Colleges and Universities
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Chicago man starts petition drive against new Ventra fare-payment card
Springlike weather is arriving late this year, but it's shaping up to be a long, hot summer for the Chicago Transit Authority. CTA President Forrest Claypool and his team will manage two difficult projects that are already unpopular with many riders...
Tags: Chicago Mayor, Richard M. Daley, Michigan Avenue, Chicago Tribune, Forrest Claypool
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Talking on the phone while driving — a cautionary tale
Sauganash resident John Blaha candidly admits his guilt and carelessness. In mid-January he was pulled over in the North Michigan Avenue shopping district by a Chicago police officer and written up for driving while talking on a mobile without using...
Tags: Cook County Government, Michigan Avenue, Prosecution, Economy, Business and Finance, Finance
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CTA's Ventra fare system a tool of mass confusion
The Chicago Transit Authority soon will launch a new fare-payment system that affects almost every CTA and Pace rider, although transit officials have yet to fully explain how it will work. Poor communications with customers is something the CTA has...
Tags: Politics, Michigan Avenue, Chicago Tribune, Media Industry, Forrest Claypool
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CTA hearing sets sights on switch to Ventra card
A public hearing will be held Monday night about an upcoming fare-payment system that offers new options for CTA and Pace customers, but also contains costly penalties — most notably a $3 cash CTA rail fare — that transit riders can avoid,...
Tags: Services and Shopping, Advice Columns and Columnists, Michigan Avenue, Chicago Tribune, Computing and Information Technology Industry
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Theaster Gates makes no small plans for new U. of C. arts incubator
Google the corner of East Garfield Boulevard and South Prairie Avenue. Map it, zoom in: If you're using Google Maps, you'll see an old picture of the corner, a long marble building just west of Washington Park, a former Walgreens, boarded-up, decaying,...
Tags: here! (tv network), Colleges and Universities, Arts and Culture, Financial Aid, Arts
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Being numb to it all no longer big shock
Sometime in the next few weeks, if you're walking down Fullerton Avenue around DePaul University and have 15 minutes to spare, duck into the tidy brick building alongside the CTA station. Here you will find the DePaul Art Museum, an institution so...
Tags: Joffrey Ballet, Boston Marathon Bombing (2013), Pulitzer Prize Awards, Religion and Belief, Lifestyle and Leisure
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Hawks just keep stuffing the bandwagon
One day this week, in the middle of feeding Chicago's insatiable appetite for hockey tickets, busy Blackhawks executive vice president Jay Blunk took a phone call from his mom. Sharon Blunk spent 35 years as a second-grade schoolteacher but never was...
Tags: Ice Hockey, United Center, Joel Quenneville, Chicago Blackhawks Game Tickets, NHL Network (tv network)
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