"Jerzy," a rogue taxi driver, sauntered through door 1D on the lower level of O'Hare International Airport like he owned the place....
Huffington Post | Posted 10.28.2009 | Chicago
The city's $0.50 taxicab fuel surcharge is going back into effect one minute after midnight, officials announced Wednesday. After seven straight days...
Chicago Sun-Times | MARY WISNIEWSKI | Posted 10.07.2009 | Chicago
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....
Huffington Post | Tim Taliaferro | Posted 11.25.2009 | Chicago
Chicago could become the first major city in the country with a puking ordinance if cab drivers get their way. Chicago taxi drivers proposed a packag...
Huffington Post | Posted 11.16.2009 | Chicago
The on-again, off-again taxi fuel surcharge is expiring yet again at midnight, the city's Department of Business Affairs and Consumer Protection annou...
Huffington Post | Posted 09.11.2009 | Chicago
Only three weeks after expiring, Chicago's taxi fuel surcharge is coming back Thursday at 12:01 a.m., the city's Department of Business Affairs and Co...
ABC 7 | Posted 08.30.2009 | Chicago
A cab ride in Chicago could cost you more if taxi drivers get their way. ...
Huffington Post | Posted 08.22.2009 | Chicago
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 07.23.2009 | Chicago
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...
Lisa Earle McLeod | Posted 07.10.2009 | Living
People like to bemoan the dearth of customer service in America. But is there anything you can do to get better service in out there in the cold cruel world of indifference?
CBS 2 | Dave Savini | Posted 05.01.2009 | Chicago
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 01.01.2009 | Chicago
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 12.27.2008 | Chicago
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Posted 11.01.2008 | Chicago
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...
Chicago Tribune | Jon Hilkevitch | Posted 11.30.2009 | Chicago