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Why do most older apartment buildings in Chicago have wooden porches instead of iron fire escapes?

Asked by Tom Gossett | Reported by Jennifer Brandel

Which is more important to Chicago (historically and today), Lake Michigan or Chicago River?

Asked by Devon Neff | Reported by Chris Bentley and Jennifer Brandel

Are there any privately-owned doughnut shops in Chicago? Which is the best?

Asked by Anonymous | Reported by Dan Weissmann

What will become of the old (and now vacant) Cook County Hospital?

Asked by Anonymous | Reported by Chris Bentley

What will happen to all of the furniture, materials and supplies in the closing schools?

Asked by Jenn Adams | Reported by Linda Lutton

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Why do most older apartment buildings in Chicago have wooden porches instead of iron fire escapes?

Asked by Tom Gossett

Which is more important to Chicago (historically and today), Lake Michigan or Chicago River?

Asked by Devon Neff

I've been seeing these signs with red boxes with a red 'x' through them on houses and other buildings. Most of the houses that have them ar...

Asked by Carrie

How much does the city spend annually on the ornamental planting of flowers and plants, say, along Michigan Ave.? City-wide?

Asked by Chesney Floyd

Is there a future in the manufacturing business in Chicago?

Asked by Vinay Sheshadri

What happens to all that stuff we so dutifully recycle. Is there a recycling processing plant in Chicago?

Asked by Julie Korzenik

Are there any privately-owned doughnut shops in Chicago? Which is the best?

Asked by Anonymous

What is the average income of a street performer in Chicago per year? What about a panhandler?

Asked by Melissa

How does all of Chicago’s produce come into the city? What’s the history of Chicago’s wholesale produce markets?

Asked by Teddy Kent

Does the city of Chicago (i.e.: taxpayers) pay for the biweekly fireworks displays at Navy Pier?

Asked by Meg

What will become of the old (and now vacant) Cook County Hospital?

Asked by Anonymous

What’s the deal with street cleaning? Does it actually do anything?

Asked by Daniel Costalis

Why is recycling not available to apartment buildings and certain parts of the city?

Asked by Quetzalli Castro

Is Chicago recycling for real? What happens to our carefully separated recyclables?

Asked by Gianmario Besana

Why has nothing seemingly changed since Illinois raised the income tax?

Asked by Tapan Shah

Elston Avenue doesn't have a bus line. What factors lead to bus routes being added or removed?

Asked by Corinne Creswell

Chicago has an extraordinary number of colleges and universities, what effect do they have on our local economy?

Asked by Dabney

Why do Chicago and Illinois keep their workers out of Social Security? Whose idea was it to have a separate pension program?

Asked by Anonymous

When should public money go to private projects? Does Chicago do this enough? Too much?

Asked by Anonymous

How much of Chicago's power comes from natural gas produced through fracking?

Asked by Anonymous

Please tell me about the Blue Bin Recycling System. Everything goes into the same bin all together. How does it all get recycled?

Asked by Stephen Glick

What do we still produce here in Chicago in terms of factory made items?

Asked by Jessica

What will happen to all of the furniture, materials and supplies in the closing schools?

Asked by Jenn Adams

What's it like to live in Chicago on a minimum wage job?

Asked by Anonymous

Why doesn't Chicago have many restaurants or fisheries that serve local, fried Lake Michigan fish?

Asked by Katherine Olecki

Why aren't more people eating local fish from lake Michigan and is great lake commercial fishing still important to Chicagoans ?

Asked by Kevin Hayden

Why are there so many rug shops in Evanston, and how do they stay in business?

Asked by Austin Busch

What is up with all the Persian rug stores in Evanston? There are at least 10, mostly on the main thoroughfare (Chicago Ave). So many!

Asked by Andy Rasmussen

Why are their so many dismal looking motels at the north end of Lincoln Avenue, and WHO stays there?

Asked by Brian Sarfatty

How much commerce takes place these days on Lake Michigan via ship? How does it compare to the past?

Asked by Mike

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