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When the city replaced the Wells Street Bridge in 1922, “L” service was suspended for just three days. How’d they manage that? 

Starting Monday November 5, the Wells Street Bridge will be closed to vehicles and pedestrians for a year, as the Chicago Department of Transportation (CDOT) works to reconstruct it.

"I got news for people," Claypool said Tuesday on WBEZ's The Afternoon Shift. "The north Red Line has to be rebuilt as well. And we're not that many years away from that happening."

Road crews begin work Monday on Lake Shore Drive to make it easier for cars to avoid getting stuck during a blizzard. City workers will begin building two turnaround points after rush hour.Both escape routes are on the near North Side - one will be at Armitage; the other at Schiller.

Builders broke ground on fewer homes in August, evidence that the housing market remains depressed.The Commerce Department said Tuesday that builders began work on a seasonally adjusted 571,000 homes last month, a 5 percent decline from July and a three-month low.

As President Obama gears up for a Thursday speech before Congress about his jobs agenda, a civil rights leader in his hometown is urging him to focus on proposing massive investment in construction projects.With official unemployment hovering above 9 percent, the president is expected to propose tra

Updated at 11:58 a.m. Illinois' Supreme Court has ruled that a statewide construction program is constitutional.