Transportation

The freedom to eat

Thursday, April 19, 2012
By John Gamino
The freedom to eat

“We believe in the vendor, we believe in the little guy,” declared Beth Kregor in her opening remarks of Saturday’s food truck symposium. Kregor, who is the director of the UofC Law School’s Institute for Justice Clinic of Entrepreneurship, addressed an eclectic group of university students, locals, and members of the food truck industry... »

Less than vicious cyclists

Wednesday, April 4, 2012
By Hanna Petroski
Less than vicious cyclists

They sounded like bees. A swarm of bikers careened around the corner, enthusiastically buzzing past in a blur of black and white. The day was March 28, the place was Calumet Park, and the occasion was the Gapers Block criterium series. Calumet Park, located along Lake Michigan in the far South Side neighborhood of... »

Waiting for the Bus

Wednesday, October 26, 2011
By Maria Nelson
Waiting for the Bus

Today, there is no bus along 31st Street. In the neighborhoods the street cuts through, east-west bus service is lacking. Between Cermak Road and 47th Street, Chicago’s grid system of bus service breaks down, leaving large areas of white space on the CTA system map and roughly 200,000 people without a direct route. »

Holding Up the Line

Wednesday, October 19, 2011
By Harrison Smith
Holding Up the Line

Cecilia Butler spoke before the Chicago Transit Board for the second time in four months. The 63-year-old woman repeated what she had already said four times before: that the historic station house across the street from the Garfield Green Line stop could and should be a building operated by and for the community. »