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  • Investigation timeline: What factors lead to bus routes being added or removed?

    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 …

    Aug 23, 2012 read more
  • Are there ice cream truck territories?

    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. 

    Aug 20, 2012 read more
  • Are Chicago’s Green Roofs Really Working?

    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?

    Aug 13, 2012 read more
  • Commuters count on the South Side, read on the North?

    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 …

    Aug 10, 2012 read more
  • What determines the quality of parks and playgrounds?

    Our latest Curious City question comes from a woman who noticed that a park across town was bigger and better than her own.

    Aug 9, 2012 read more
  • Is Salt Mined Under Chicago?

    If not, what’s up with that Umbrella Girl on Elston?

    Aug 7, 2012 read more
  • Finding Chicago’s first maps

    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.

    Aug 6, 2012 read more
  • The logic behind the Kennedy’s reversible lanes

    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.

    Aug 1, 2012 read more
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  • Numbers for South Side streets, names for the North. Why?

    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.

    July 27, 2012 read more
  • How many festivals is too many for Chicago?

    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 …

    July 25, 2012 read more
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