Chicago Cab Costs

Cabbies Want Fare Increase

ABC 7 | Posted 08.30.2009 | Chicago


A cab ride in Chicago could cost you more if taxi drivers get their way. ...

Cab Fares To Drop Friday As Gas Surchage Expires

STNG | Posted 12.14.2008 | Chicago


The extra 50-cent surcharge being added to Chicago cab fares will expire early Friday morning. City Consumer Services Commissioner Norma Reyes announ...

Cab Surcharge Could End Next Week

Crain's Chicago Business | Lorene Yue | Posted 12.07.2008 | Chicago


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...

Some Chicago Cabs Haven't Reduced Surcharge

Chicago Public Radio | Tasha Flournoy | Posted 12.01.2008 | Chicago


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...

Cabbies Threaten To Strike

Chicago Sun-Times | Fran Spielman | Posted 11.30.2008 | Chicago


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...

Cab Costs Dropping

Chicago Sun-Times | Fran Spielman | Posted 11.28.2008 | Chicago


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...