The last years of Chicago streetcars

Oct. 5, 2012
CTA junked the world's largest "green" transit system in the name of progress. Is it time to rethink that decision?

CTA unveils new plan for Red Line's Wilson station

Oct. 4, 2012
The CTA said the project will serve as an anchor for economic development in the Uptown neighborhood.

The great years of Chicago streetcars

Oct. 3, 2012
When the trolley car ruled city streets, Chicago had the greatest public transit system in the world.

Chicago's first streetcars

Oct. 2, 2012
Scientific innovation on the Far South Side — it's 1890, and the electric streetcar comes to Chicago.

CTA unveils debit, credit fare system

Sep. 27, 2012
Starting next summer, customers will have access to a new fare system on CTA and Pace: personal bank-issued debit and credit cards. 

The CTA we didn't get, Part 4

Sep. 14, 2012
According to the 1958 plan, the median of the Eisenhower Expressway was to have space for four tracks. Today the median strip still has only two tracks — and lots of empty space.

The CTA we didn't get III

Sep. 10, 2012
Another look at how CTA was planning for the future — in 1958. This time it was a mult-story parking garage built right over the Kennedy-Edens junction! 

The CTA we didn't get, part two

Sep. 7, 2012
More of CTA's ambitious 1958 proposals for the future, "New Horizons."

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