Chicago Potholes

City Owes Drivers $2M For Damage Caused By Potholes

CBS2 Chicago | Pam Zekman | Posted 06.29.2009 | Chicago


Claims from drivers whose cars were damaged by the holes are expected to be well over $2 million dollars this year, and that's on top of all the money...

Federal Money Coming To Fill Potholes, Repair Streets

Chicago Tribune | Jon Hilkevitch | Posted 06.11.2009 | Chicago


The road construction season is finally here, and this year, for a change, there is actually money to resurface about 140 miles of Chicago arterial st...

City Adding Pothole Repair Crews

Chicago Sun-Times | Fran Spielman | Posted 05.10.2009 | Chicago


Chicago's never-ending war on potholes is about to get reinforcements in high-traffic areas....

Sick Of Waiting On City, Austin Residents Patch Own Potholes

Chicago Tribune | Noreen S. Ahmed-Ullah | Posted 05.09.2009 | Chicago


What to do when there are potholes on your street and the city won't pave them fast enough? Patch them yourself....

Daley, Quinn Lay Out $200 Million City Street Repair Plan

Chicago Tribune | Susan Kuczka and Richard Wronski | Posted 05.06.2009 | Chicago


One of Chicago's worst pothole-scarred streets was selected as the backdrop Saturday for Gov. Pat Quinn and Mayor Richard Daley to outline nearly $200...

City To Use Stimulus Funds To Fix Thousands Of Potholes

CLTV | Posted 04.28.2009 | Chicago


City officials say that they will use federal stimulus funds to help repair the hundreds of thousands of potholes that are plaguing Chicago drivers, C...

City Repaving Olympics Site As Other Roads And Potholes Languish

Chicago Tribune | David Heinzmann and Laurie Cohen | Posted 04.19.2009 | Chicago


While commuters dodged potholes on workhorse thoroughfares like Stony Island Avenue and 55th Street on Wednesday, just a few feet away on the less tra...

State's Cheap Road Choices Costs Drivers

Chicago Tribune | Jon Hilkevitch | Posted 02.19.2009 | Chicago


As regularly as the same streets undergo the same repairs year after year, drivers cannot be blamed for assuming that the policy in Illinois is aimed ...

It's Pothole Season: Over 1,300 Already Reported (VIDEO)

Chicago Tribune | James Janega | Posted 01.29.2009 | Chicago


On an average December day -- last week, say, or last year, the worst pothole winter in a decade -- the city's Department of Transportation logs 300 n...