This Saturday marks New York City-based Improv Everywhere's 8th Annual No Pants! Subway Ride - part prank, part social experiment where participants gather to ride the subway, sans pants, with straight faces. People from around the globe have been encouraged to organize their own pants-free public transportation ride and lucky for us, it's on. The fun starts at the Granville CTA Red line station (1119 West Granville Avenue) this Saturday at High Noon. THE RULES: "You can wear socks, shoes, boots,

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What the CTA is calling a "Medical Emergency" has disrupted southbound Blue Line service into the Loop. The incident occurred at the Jackson stop. The CTA is urging people to seek alternate routes southbound into the Loop. It's the second major disruption of serviec for the CTA's trains in as many days after a derailment interrupted Yellow and Red Line service yesterday. Update:The Trib is reporting that a southbound Blue Line train struck a person at the Jackson stop, critically injuring them, w

Power to the southbound tracks on the CTA's Blue Line downtown has been shut off after a woman was struck and badly injured by a subway train at 8:15 this morning. Blue Line customers are being advised to use alternate...

Taking the el while living in Chicago was infrequently pleasant. To start, many of the stations are above ground (giving rise to the nickname, shortened from "elevated"), which gave you freezing…

The day when riding the CTA without pants is encouraged.

A CTA train derailment in the Howard Red Line rail yard temporarily interrupted Red Line service and has indefinitely shut down Yellow Line service. The #97 bus is offering service for Yellow Line riders until further notice. Southbound Red Line trains between Howard and Thorndale were temporarily suspended but service has since been restored and the CTA is saying to expect only minor delays on the Red and Purple Lines. The derailment occurred around 9 a.m. and there's no word what line the derai

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I'd like to begin with a clarification that I would not consider myself a "cake person." While I am almost unavoidably a "cat person," a "beer drinker," a "CTA rider" (and, that and two bucks won't…