So here I am again, on another short excursion away from home. I’ve been awake for an hour already and decided the best thing is to get up and put my first impressions on paper. Since there is only a one hour time difference between Toronto and Chicago I decided yesterday I wasn’t even going…
For Chicagoans, ringing in the new year also comes with clanging more change into meters, buses and Transit Card vending machines. Late last year, city officials approved rate increases on Chicago’s 36,000 parking meters. The most expensive meters in the Loop, which used to cost $3 an hour, now require $3.50. In the non-Loop and…
After being appropriately prepped as a result of our visit to the Chicago Cultural Center we decided to head off yesterday to visit the Pullman Historic District, a planned industrial and residential community dating back to the 1880s, on Chicago’s South Side. In order to get there we took the red line all the way…
