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How often are taxis pulled over and what is the most often issued offense they receive?

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Who is the super-friendly train conductor on the red line?

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what's at the bottom of the chicago river?

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How do guns get to Chicago?

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Why are Latinos concentrated in the Pilsen and Little Village neighborhoods? When did it happen?

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Is it possible to discern how the Chicago accent came to be?

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How often are taxis pulled over and what is the most often issued offense they receive?

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Why aren't truancy officers riding around like they used to?

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What happens to all the plants and flowers in the downtown planters when they are changed out for a new season?

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What qualifications do you need to be professional zamboni driver?

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Why is there steam coming from the ground at housing project on Diversey between the river and Damen? Someone has built iron fences around ...

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There are signs on the highway that say there have been, let's say, 1000 traffic-related deaths this year. Does that mean in Chicago alone? ...

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How do conceptions of the American Dream differ across socio-economic class in the Chicago area? Do residents of the North Shore (especially...

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Several years ago JC Decaux won the contract the replace all the CTA bus shelters throughout the city. They maintain and clean them, change...

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Why does Chicago tap water have a distinct smell? Suburbs don't have it.

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What is the deal with the ginormous softballs?

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How do they clean the bean in Millennium Park?

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How much do the Field Museum and Art Institute have in their storage vaults at any given time, on average?

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Do urban archaeologists ever take a look when streets are torn up for pipes, repairs, foundations?

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What's the deal with all the bunny rabbits that inhabit the urban areas of Chicago? Most importantly, where do they go for the long winter?

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What is the deal with the traffic related death toll rate tally signs on expressways?

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Now that Colorado & Washington have done it, there is talk that Illinois may legalize marijuana. But I want to know - how will legalization ...

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What is the real story about Chicago's population of parrots?

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All those guard towers at the bridges in Chicago - who stays in those, and what do they do all day, since bridges rarely go up?

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What ever happened to the Chicago Cardinals? Did we drive them away to St. Louis?

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Who is the super-friendly train conductor on the red line?

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I keep hearing that pick-up trucks are not allowed on Lake Shore Drive, though I see a number of them daily. Also, that there are parts of ...

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How does one go about understanding the morning traffic report when travel times and road names (some are just exit names and something call...

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I have heard that Rogers Park is one of the most culturally diverse neighborhoods in Chicago and in the United States, and that this is due ...

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There are new signs above the freeways that list the number of highway deaths. I was recently in another city and the same number of deaths...

Asked by Juli Walter

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What's one thing you can get in Chicago that you can't get anywhere else?

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Just how many bats live in the Loop? What are their favorite hangouts?

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