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- City Life, Public Service Announcement Aug 7, 2020
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Is your lovin’ worth two transfers?
What our listings coordinator is musing about this week
- Music, Music Review Jun 19, 2020
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Improvising trio Icepick renew jazz’s love affair with the El on their third LP, Hellraiser
- News & Politics, Feature Mar 21, 2019
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Warning bells
With a Democrat in the governor's office, Metra expects to finally get an influx of cash—but will it be enough to make up for the years-long backlog?
- Columns & Opinion, On Transportation May 8, 2018
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Is it legal for Jehovah’s Witnesses to proselytize inside CTA stations?
Anyone who regularly takes the el or subway has seen them at stations from O'Hare to 95th Street, Fullerton to Kedzie.
- Blogs, Bleader Feb 21, 2018
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The CTA is crowded and slow. The Reader can fix it!
If only the Straight Dope were running the city!
- Best of Chicago, Reasons to love Chicago Jun 23, 2016
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Life lessons learned in the middle of the Kennedy Expressway
All the entertainment and insight you need is on an el platform, surrounded by automobile traffic.
- Blogs, Bleader Feb 9, 2014
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I Saw You, illustrated: Heading downtown from ORD
Maritsa Patrinos illustrates a chance encounter between two el riders.
- Blogs, Bleader Sep 11, 2013
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On puppetry and paper hats: Behind the scenes of The Paper Hat Game
Torry Bend talks about how she created her new multimedia puppet show based on a real story from the el.
- Blogs, Bleader Oct 31, 2012
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Street View 057: Scary + Respectable
Isa Giallorenzo's Street View 057
- Best of Chicago, City Life Jun 20, 2012
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Best Place for a New El Stop
United Center
- Blogs, Bleader Oct 5, 2011
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Stories of the el: Oh, L No!
A new website collects stories from the Chicago el.
- Blogs, Bleader Feb 1, 2011
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His Last Blizzard: Jack Is Ready for It
In a Purple Line phone conversation, a man tells his brother in Orlando about the approaching blizzard.
- Blogs, Bleader Oct 21, 2010
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"And so the trains just look sort of... lost."
The Skokie Swift: an anachronism from the glory days of light rail.
- Blogs, Bleader Feb 24, 2010
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Between Floors
Austin cinematographer and 1999 Columbia College grad Jen White's feature directorial debut "Between Floors," set entirely on five stuck elevators, screens Thursday 2/25 at Columbia College.
- News & Politics, Our Town Feb 4, 2010
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Grand Plans
When you're spending $67 million on an engineering marvel like the Grand/Red Line stop, why not brag a little?
- News & Politics, Neighborhood News Nov 6, 1997
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Losing Track
Many people think tearing down a neglected stretch of the el is good for Woodlawn. Many people with cars, that is.
