Rahm calls for largest property tax hike in modern Chicago history

By Ted Dabrowski

09/21/2015

Chicagoans know new revenues won’t be used to pay for better roads, classrooms or public safety – these tax hikes won’t even fix what’s ailing the city’s bottom line.

TAGS: Chicago, CPS: Chicago Public Schools, ecigs, fees, Lyft, outmigration, property taxes, Rahm Emanuel, rideshare, Uber

Bloomington and other Illinois cities should welcome ridesharing

03/02/2015

There’s no good reason for Bloomington's government to stand between drivers who want to offer this service and would-be customers who want to take advantage of it.

TAGS: Lyft, rideshare, Uber

Illinois General Assembly won’t override veto of ridesharing bill

11/20/2014

Illinois lawmakers should keep their hands off ridesharing and let innovation continue.

TAGS: Chicago, collaborative economy, Lyft, regulations, rideshare, Uber

To catch up with Uber, Chicago taxi group proposes … higher fares?

07/29/2014

The taxi industry complains endlessly that ridesharing services such as UberX and Lyft are hurting its business. Now an AFL-CIO-affiliated group of Chicago cab drivers is seeking to improve its members’ fortunes by pushing the city to mandate higher taxi fares. But hiking prices doesn’t seem like a good way to save an industry that...

TAGS: Chicago, Lyft, taxis, Uber

Ridesharing victory over cronyism

By Matt Paprocki

04/11/2014

This session, a bill was introduced to the Illinois General Assembly that would impose draconian regulations on Uber and Lyft’s ridesharing programs. This legislation was crafted by the cab unions with the intention of drastically increasing regulation so as to maintain monopoly control over the urban transportation market. In addition to stifling the free market,...

TAGS: Lyft, Uber

Tell your legislators now to save UberX and Lyft in Chicago!

04/10/2014

The taxi lobby has been trying to get Chicago to destroy ridesharing services like UberX and Lyft, but it hasn’t worked because the services are just too popular in the city. So now the taxi industry has turned to Springfield for help crushing the competition, and it looks like state legislators might be about to...

TAGS: Lyft, rideshare, Uber

The 6 worst things about Illinois’ proposed ridesharing law

03/27/2014

Taxi-industry lobbyists have been working hard to get Chicago to hobble or ban popular ridesharing services such as UberX and Lyft, but they haven’t gotten very far. The problem: these services are just too popular. Aldermen have been overwhelmed with calls and emails from Chicagoans asking them to leave ridesharing alone. So now the taxi...

TAGS: Lyft, rideshare, Uber

Chicago City Council committee taking up anti-rideshare ordinance – let them know you oppose it

03/26/2014

In February, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s office proposed an ordinance that would force popular ridesharing services such as Uber and Lyft to severely change the way they do business, if not shut down entirely. We pointed out some of the proposal’s many serious problems, and Chicago aldermen reported thousands of people emailing them asking them...

TAGS: Lyft, rideshare, Uber

Why are regulators so out of touch?

By Bryant Jackson-Green

03/11/2014

Why are regulators so out of touch? At a Chicago City Council committee hearing on ride-sharing services last week, taxi-industry lobbyist Matthew Daus, president of the International Association of Transportation Regulators, reportedly said that “millennials” were responsible for the rise of companies such as Lyft and Uber because they care more about “cost” than about the public...

TAGS: energy drinks, Lyft, millennials, nanny state, Uber

Is Chicago retreating from threats against Uber and ridesharing services?

02/26/2014

At the beginning of this month, things weren’t looking good for “transportation network providers” such as Uber and Lyft in Chicago. On Feb. 5, Mayor Rahm Emanuel unveiled a proposed ordinance that would force these services to severely change the way they do business, if not leave the city entirely. That same day, aldermen Ed...

TAGS: Chicago, Lyft, taxis, Uber

Lyft

Rahm calls for largest property tax hike in modern Chicago history

Bloomington and other Illinois cities should welcome ridesharing

Illinois General Assembly won’t override veto of ridesharing bill

To catch up with Uber, Chicago taxi group proposes … higher fares?

Ridesharing victory over cronyism

Tell your legislators now to save UberX and Lyft in Chicago!

The 6 worst things about Illinois’ proposed ridesharing law

Chicago City Council committee taking up anti-rideshare ordinance – let them know you oppose it

Why are regulators so out of touch?

Is Chicago retreating from threats against Uber and ridesharing services?

Chicago Forward 2026: A pro-growth plan to end city budget deficits

Report Archive

Diana Graham

Process for unionizing non-state workers raises red flags

CBS Chicago: Illinois’ highest-paid superintendent receives $400K per year to oversee 1,200 students