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The Chicago Transit Authority is cutting these routes to add service to more congested ones as part of their crowd-reduction program.

City Hall released a comprehensive plan for cycling while celebrating about 30 miles of new bike lanes.

Amtrak is adding more trains on its Chicago-Michigan route to accommodate increased demand during the busy travel period at the end of December.Amtrak will have two additional daily trains between Chicago and Ann Arbor from Dec. 21-23 and Dec. 28-30.

Curious citizen Miriam Reuter wondered how Chicago's coastline has changed over the decades. We learn that from nature to industry and back again (sorta), the lakefront’s changed so much that city founders wouldn’t recognize it.

In this closing conversation of the 2012 UIC Urban Forum, Steve Schlickman, Executive Director of the UIC Urban Transportation Center, discusses the future of urban transportation funding with Ray H. LaHood, the 16th U.S. Transportation Secretary.

For the first time in Chicago, bicyclists are getting a stoplight and two lanes. But car traffic lost a lane.

With or without snow, the city's winter parking restrictions begin December 1.