Stupid Is as Stupid Drives
This, a short and hearfelt message to the people quoted in today’s Sun-Times article grousing about downtown parking costs when you drive to work.
Suffer.
That’s why God invented public transport. My heart does not bleed for you. You want to pay $289 a month to bring your car down here and needlessly congest my neighborhood streets? Go right ahead. My city’s coffers — which you fill up on a daily basis with the overpriced parking fees you pay — love your money.
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Zipcar over I-GO: A Paper-Thin Advantage
This weekend, Devyn and I took a 35-mile trip through the Chicago suburbs with Zipcar. Using the for-profit car sharing service was a much more pleasant, customer-friendly experience than using the nonprofit I-Go service that my job uses. Here's why.
This weekend, Devyn and I took a 35-mile trip through the Chicago suburbs with Zipcar. Using the for-profit car sharing service was a much more pleasant, customer-friendly experience than using the nonprofit I-Go service that my job uses. Here's why.
Too Late to Save Macy's State Street?
I've said it before and I'll say it again: Macy's CEO Terry Lundgren will go to the grave--and take the former Marshall Field's with him--before he and his team get a clue about how to treat Chicagoans.
I've said it before and I'll say it again: Macy's CEO Terry Lundgren will go to the grave--and take the former Marshall Field's with him--before he and his team get a clue about how to treat Chicagoans.
At Home in the Flyover Zone
As I mark my sixth anniversary as an ex-pat New Yorker living in King Daley's court, I realize this is the first New Year in Chicago that I don't want to be anywhere else.
As I mark my sixth anniversary as an ex-pat New Yorker living in King Daley's court, I realize this is the first New Year in Chicago that I don't want to be anywhere else.
