Chicago mayor weighs bringing ‘congestion tax’ to Loop area
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson is now weighing a plan that could slap an automatic fee on drivers traveling in the downtown ...
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RIOS shares more renderings and details of master plan to revamp area around Chicago’s United Center
A $7 billion vision to redevelop the area surrounding Chicago’s United Center and the West Side was revealed last summer and this week new renderings emerged as the first phase of the proposed ...
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Opinion: Money alone won't resolve the region's transit crisis
State legislators should understand that this is not a moment for tinkering around the edges. Any increase in transit funding ...
Bulls’ and Blackhawks’ plan to begin remaking the neighborhood surrounding United Center wins commission approval
The Chicago Plan Commission endorsed the first phase of a plan by the Reinsdorf and Wirtz families to remake the Near West ...
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RTA pitches Springfield on $1.5B revamp to save and even enhance service
Chicago-area transit leaders are unveiling a plan they say would both avoid a sharp post-COVID reduction in service and help ...
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Chicago Transit Authority receives nearly $2 billion from FTA in CIG grant for RLE project
Officials from the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA), the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) and Illinois elected officials ...
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Isolated Chicago communities secure money for a coveted transit project before Trump takes office
Tammy Chase, a spokesperson for the Chicago Transit Authority, said the cost then would have been $114 million compared to around $5.7 billion now, a figure that would keep rising the longer ...
Red Line extension funding now certain as CTA, feds sign grant agreement
The funding agreement ensures the $1.97 billion grant cannot be clawed back by a new presidential administration, Chicago ...
CTA locks in funding for Red Line Extension to Far South Side
An idea first floated more than 50 years ago to extend the Chicago Transit Authority's Red Line to the Far South Side is ...
Chicago, federal officials sign nearly $2B funding agreement for CTA Red Line Extension Project
Local and federal officials signed a funding agreement Friday for the CTA's Red Line Extension Project. Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin and CTA President Dorval Carter, Jr. were ...
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IL: Editorial: New York’s congestion tax is no model for Chicago
Chicago isn’t New York, and neither is our traffic, which is most problematic on the expressways and main arteries, not in a South Loop business district, which was almost ...
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Chicago’s Best Sports Bars
Chicago sports are in a crisis. It’s a sad time to be a fan with every single franchise obsessed with mediocrity or scraping the cellars of the standings. Those cellars aren’t even stocked ...