CHICAGO — Chicago cabbies will get a city hearing on their proposal to raise fares by 22 percent even though they didn't collect the required nu...
Posted 03.26.2012
A Chicago man has filed a complaint with the city over a cab driver who allegedly threatened him with a bat and attacked him with pepper spray because...
Posted 11.23.2011
After cab drivers were involved in two separate fatal collisions this summer in Chicago, city officials moved to crack down on some of the most danger...
Chicago Sun-Times | Posted 06.23.2011
Chicago is hoping to make its taxi fleet a bit more green, so on Earth Day, it launched a new program to help the industry buy cost-effective hybrid a...
Chicago Tribune | Posted 05.25.2011
In an effort to thwart crimes against cabdrivers, thousands of small security cameras will be installed in taxis across the city in the next few years...
Chicaho Sun-Times | Posted 05.25.2011
Under Illinois law, once any state brands a vehicle "salvage," it can't be driven in Illinois until state officials inspect it, certify that it has be...
Chicago Tribune | Jon Hilkevitch | Posted 05.25.2011
"Jerzy," a rogue taxi driver, sauntered through door 1D on the lower level of O'Hare International Airport like he owned the place....
Chicago Sun-Times | MARY WISNIEWSKI | Posted 05.25.2011
When Hong "Steve" Kim, 50, a cabdriver from Humboldt Park, got robbed at gunpoint in his cab a few years ago, the assailant told him he was lucky....
ABC 7 | Posted 05.25.2011
A cab ride in Chicago could cost you more if taxi drivers get their way. ...
Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011
The city could eliminate the 50-cent taxi fuel surcharge Friday, ABC 7 reports. The surcharge is added when gas prices top $2.70 per gallon. It's rem...
Chicago Tribune | Jon Hilkevitch | Posted 05.25.2011
The refusal of some Chicago taxicab drivers to accept credit cards leads to hundreds of complaints to city officials each year, ranking third behind r...
CBS 2 | Dave Savini | Posted 05.25.2011
Cab riders held prisoner, assaulted and even ripped off - all because of how they wanted to pay their fare. There have been thousands of complaints ag...
Chicago Tribune | Emily S. Achenbaum | Posted 05.25.2011
Thousands of holiday travelers leaving O'Hare International Airport found plenty of cabs waiting in line outside the airport Sunday, despite the decis...
AP | Posted 05.25.2011
Chicago cab drivers say they'll strike for 24 hours starting Sunday because of concern over fares. Many protested outside of Chicago's City Hall on T...
STNG | Posted 05.25.2011
The extra 50-cent surcharge being added to Chicago cab fares will expire early Friday morning. City Consumer Services Commissioner Norma Reyes announ...
Chicago Sun-Times | Fran Spielman | Posted 05.25.2011
Chicago taxicab fares are about to drop for the second time in two weeks. But passengers may soon have a more difficult time finding a cab. The two-t...
Crain's Chicago Business | Lorene Yue | Posted 05.25.2011
Look for cab fares to drop next week if gasoline prices keep falling. The current 50-cent taxicab fuel surcharge could disappear Nov. 14 if gas price...
Chicago Public Radio | Tasha Flournoy | Posted 05.25.2011
A $1 fuel surcharge in Chicago taxi cabs is supposed to drop to 50 cents today. But several cabbies still haven't reduced the fee. None of the handfu...
Chicago Sun-Times | Fran Spielman | Posted 05.25.2011
Furious that Chicago taxicab fares are going down -- not up -- cabdrivers on Thursday gave Mayor Daley a two-week ultimatum: Support a 16 percent fare...
Chicago Sun-Times | Fran Spielman | Posted 05.25.2011
On Halloween morning, Chicago will wake up to some consumer news that is not scary, for a change: The cost of riding in a cab is going down. At 12:01...
Posted 05.25.2011
UPDATE Cab fares will increase in 2009, the first price hike in four years, a top mayoral aide told the Sun-Times Wednesday. "We have given taxi dr...
AP | Posted 04.03.2012