Curious City participant and recent Chicago-transplant Derek Stiles wanted to join a softball league. But when he saw people playing the sport without gloves and with a gigantic ball, he couldn’t …
The Chicago Transit Authority recently proposed cutting a dozen bus lines and adding service on others. So this question by Curious City participant Corinne Creswell seemed perfectly timed: Elston …
We’re cleaning out a fridge-full of summer-themed questions that we’d hate to see rot in our archive. Learn how Chicagoans beat the heat before AC, where you can surf on the lake and why you should …
A Chicago Alderman is calling for city council to renegotiate the recently passed mobile food truck ordinance in part because the repurcussions on ice cream trucks were not taken into consideration.
What factors lead to bus routes get added or removed? WBEZ’s Curious City is investigating. This interactive map shows the current round of bus route changes the CTA is proposing.
We begin investigating how decisions are made around adding and removing bus routes. This comes right as the CTA is finalizing plans to cut a dozen bus routes. Our story begins with a listener’s …
A listener wondered why her son can’t get an easy ice cream fix. That led us to look at how drivers get the leg up in the battle for ice cream supremacy.
WBEZ Listener Jenn Lawrence asked about one of the city’s highest-profile green initiatives. Does ‘The City on The Prairie’ still want prairies on our roofs?
If Chicago streets are messing with our directional skills, can historians come to the rescue? Curious City takes on a question posed by Mark Sheldon about why Chicago’s sensible numbered streets …
Our latest Curious City question comes from a woman who noticed that a park across town was bigger and better than her own.
