Archive for the 'Transportation' Category
I just wanted to share the list of streets closed for this weekend’s Bank of America Chicago Marathon in the city. If you live downtown or up north in Chicago, beware of parking bans and getting your car towed tonight also in addition to these streets that will be inaccessible. Most streets re-open on Sunday afternoon [...]
October 9th, 2009 | Posted in 312, 773, Chicago Loop, Chicago News, Chicago Vacation Sights Tours and Tips, Chicago events, Gold Coast Chicago, Hyde Park, Lakeview, Lincoln Park, Sights, Entertainment, Events & Attractions, Sports, Transportation, Uptown, wrigleyville | No Comments
I always like to recommend the best events around Chicago to attend and plan your weekends and vacations with but sometimes I have to call out the details about Chicago that are less than ideal. Today’s complaint is about the Chicago CTA bus service.
I have a love hate relationship with public transportation to begin with [...]
July 28th, 2009 | Posted in 312, 630, Airports and Tourism Travel, Chicago Consumer News, Chicago Loop, Downers Grove, Grumpy post of the week, IL, Michigan Avenue Chicago, Naperville, The Suburbs, This Weekend in Chicago, Transportation | 1 Comment
These are the updates I just got about Memorial Day Parade and Street Closures in Chicago. If you are planning on attending the Chicago Memorial Day Parade, The JP Morgan Chase Corporate Challenge Race, The Memorial March, or the Bike the Drive event, check this list first to find out where the streets are closed [...]
May 21st, 2009 | Posted in 312, 630, 708, 773, 847, Airports and Tourism Travel, Business Local, Chicago Consumer News, Chicago Health Fitness Exercise, Chicago Loop, Chicago News, Chicago Vacation Sights Tours and Tips, Chicago events, Downers Grove, Evanston, Gold Coast Chicago, Holidays & Christmas, Hyde Park, IL, Lakeview, Lincoln Park, Lombard, Michigan Avenue Chicago, Mount Prospect, Naperville, Neighborhood Festivals, Oak Park, Pilsen, Pop Culture, Schaumburg, Sights, Entertainment, Events & Attractions, Skokie, This Weekend in Chicago, Transportation, Uptown, Wood Dale, elmhurst, wrigleyville | 1 Comment
Tesla is coming to Chicago!
Many of us know Tesla Motors because of the news involving either:
1. High Gas Prices and alternative fuel vehicles talked about by magazines like WIRED.
2. The CEO of the Tesla Motors Company being removed by the board because of lots of personal differences and internal conflict which have led to the [...]
March 10th, 2009 | Posted in 312, 630, 708, 773, 847, Business Local, Chicago Consumer News, Chicago News, Chicago Small Business Technology & Innovation, Chicago Vacation Sights Tours and Tips, Downers Grove, Evanston, Gold Coast Chicago, Hyde Park, IL, Lakeview, Lemont, Lincoln Park, Lombard, Mount Prospect, Naperville, Oak Park, Pilsen, Pop Culture, Schaumburg, Shopping in Chicago, Sights, Entertainment, Events & Attractions, Skokie, Transportation, Uptown, Wood Dale, elmhurst | 1 Comment
The Odyssey Boat where we went for a Dinner Cruise in Chicago
The Odyssey Dinner Boat Cruises on Lake Michigan in Chicago are well known for providing an elegant evening on the lake with a spectacular view of the city of Chicago. When we got a chance to take one this weekend and have a night out [...]
March 9th, 2009 | Posted in 312, 630, 708, 773, 847, Airports and Tourism Travel, Business Local, Chicago Loop, Evanston, Food, Restaurants & Dining, Jazz & Blues Music, Lakeview, Lemont, Lincoln Park, Lombard, Michigan Avenue Chicago, Mount Prospect, Naperville, Oak Park, Pilsen, Pop Culture, Shopping in Chicago, Sights, Entertainment, Events & Attractions, Skokie, The Suburbs, Theater Plays Broadway Shows in Chicago, This Weekend in Chicago, Transportation, Uptown, elmhurst | 2 Comments
Chicago got more snow today and has a forecast of snow every day this week along with below zero temperatures. All this is after getting a foot of snow on this past Saturday and snow on Thursday before that. (January 2009) The snowfall was above average last year in 2007-2008 also (with 60.3 inches of [...]
January 13th, 2009 | Posted in 312, 630, 708, 773, 847, Airports and Tourism Travel, Chicago News, Chicago Weather, The Suburbs, Transportation | 1 Comment
If you work downtown like I do, you may have noticed that theMichigan Avenue Bridge over the Chicago river has the sidewalk on the west side of the street closed and barricaded off today. I knew they were continuing improvements on the Michigan Avenue Bridge and saw the signs and TV trucks recording it but in [...]
January 12th, 2009 | Posted in 312, 773, Chicago Consumer News, Chicago Loop, Chicago News, Michigan Avenue Chicago, Transportation | No Comments
This is a friendly reminder that the CTA train and bus fares will increase on January 1, 2009. Even though the state of Illinois approved the budget increases last year that prevented a fare increase then, the state revenues from sales and income taxes is down in 2008 and 2009 due to the current economic [...]
December 30th, 2008 | Posted in 312, 773, Airports and Tourism Travel, Business Local, Chicago Consumer News, Chicago Loop, Chicago News, Gold Coast Chicago, Grumpy post of the week, Lakeview, Lincoln Park, Michigan Avenue Chicago, Pilsen, Sights, Entertainment, Events & Attractions, Transportation | 1 Comment
The CTA Holiday train is a festive decorated train that has a Santa Claus in fill regalia on a flat bed car in the middle of the train amidst lots of lights and decorations. The CTA Holiday Train runs from November 23rd through December 23rd ondifferent tracks and lines of the el train system in Chicago.
The first [...]
December 5th, 2008 | Posted in 312, 773, Airports and Tourism Travel, Chicago Loop, Chicago Vacation Sights Tours and Tips, Holidays & Christmas, Lakeview, Lincoln Park, Pop Culture, Sights, Entertainment, Events & Attractions, Transportation | No Comments
I just read that the City of Chicago received a winning bid to hand over the management of the 35,000 parking meters to a private company from the department of revenue in Chicago. The new (privatization of) parking meter prices will likely have to be higher because they think this will close the $150 Million dollar budget gap [...]
December 2nd, 2008 | Posted in 312, 773, Business Local, Chicago Consumer News, Chicago Loop, Chicago News, Gold Coast Chicago, Hyde Park, Lakeview, Lincoln Park, Michigan Avenue Chicago, Pilsen, Transportation | 1 Comment
Since winter started this weekend with a blanket of snow I thought I would offer some top driving tips for how to drive in the snow and ice, in blizzards and generally Chicago style in the winter so you get where you need to go whatever the weather is like. This is also important for safety [...]
December 1st, 2008 | Posted in 312, 630, 773, 847, Airports and Tourism Travel, Chicago News, Chicago Weather, Downers Grove, Evanston, Gold Coast Chicago, Holidays & Christmas, Hyde Park, Lakeview, Lincoln Park, Michigan Avenue Chicago, Naperville, Oak Park, Pilsen, Schaumburg, Skokie, The Suburbs, Transportation | 11 Comments
The Bank of America Chicago Marathonis scheduled for Sunday October 11 this year. (formerly the LaSalle Bank Chicago Marathon) Every year over 45,000 runners take to the streets of the neighborhoods in Chicago to test their luck and their bodies against 26.2 miles of grueling marathon. (and hope that the finish line is less slippery than [...]
September 26th, 2008 | Posted in 312, 773, Chicago Loop, Chicago News, Lakeview, Lincoln Park, Pilsen, Sights, Entertainment, Events & Attractions, This Weekend in Chicago, Transportation | No Comments