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.
If not, what’s up with that Umbrella Girl on Elston?
A reader wondered how Chicago’s coastline has changed over the decades. We look at the earliest maps of Chicago to get us closer to an answer.
We deploy two video teams to capture the complex operation of reversing the lanes, keeping traffic flowing (most of the time) and the highways safe.
We begin an investigation of a puzzling aspect of the area’s urban geography. We took a cue from an educator, whose interest got piqued during his former commute.
A listener wonders if there’s too much fun for the City of Big Shoulders to lift. We head into the thick of the festival scene to find out whether the city’s hit a saturation point, or is just …
