Forrest Claypool

Transit agencies look to keep South Side moving during CTA work

2013-05-16 06:11:00

The time for campaigning is about to end. Now the hard work — delivering on promises made to 80,000 daily CTA Red Line customers who will lose a vital transportation lifeline for five months — is set to begin Sunday. Public outreach for...

CTA cleans up advertising policy

2013-05-09 00:00:00

Sex and violence sells, but no longer on the CTA. The CTA board voted Wednesday to tighten the agency's advertising policy, allowing only commercial, promotional and governmental ads, as well as public service announcements from nonprofit groups on...

CTA adjusts ad policy, also says decrowding efforts working

2013-05-08 16:14:00

Sex and violence sells, but no longer on the CTA. The CTA board voted Wednesday to tighten the agency’s advertising policy, allowing only commercial, promotional and governmental ads, as well as public service announcements from non-profit groups...

Review: 'First Son: The Biography of Richard M. Daley'

2013-04-21 00:00:00

Readers who don't know much about Chicago's longest-serving mayor will learn a lot from Keith Koeneman's new book, "First Son: The Biography of Richard M. Daley." But readers already familiar with the Daley years may be disappointed if they expect new...

CTA details proposed Ashland express bus service

2013-04-19 04:46:00

Ashland Avenue will get a dedicated center bus lane in each direction for express bus service between 95th Street and Irving Park Road, the CTA and Mayor Rahm Emanuel will announce today. This is the first step in bringing bus rapid transit, service...

Kass: Republican Bruce Rauner takes no position on gay marriage

2013-04-05 00:00:00

Bruce Rauner, the multimillionaire Republican businessman who wants to become governor of Illinois, sat down with me for an interview Thursday and dodged questions about same-sex marriage. It took about four tries to pin him down on where he stands,...

CTA boss wavers on Ventra at hearing

2013-04-02 02:00:00

CTA President Forrest Claypool on Monday appeared to alternate between playing the roles of an impartial party as well as a pitchman for the new Ventra transit card's controversial prepaid debit-account program. Claypool told state officials at a public...

CTA banking on extra Ventra cash

2013-03-28 04:59:00

The CTA will receive a cash infusion of at least a half-million dollars a year that won't come from the farebox, and some of it will be paid by customers who are hit by fees from the new Ventra prepaid debit card. The transit agency's Ventra fare system...

Chicago man starts petition drive against new Ventra fare-payment card

2013-03-25 00:00:00

Springlike weather is arriving late this year, but it's shaping up to be a long, hot summer for the Chicago Transit Authority. CTA President Forrest Claypool and his team will manage two difficult projects that are already unpopular with many riders...

CTA's Ventra fare system a tool of mass confusion

2013-03-18 00:00:00

The Chicago Transit Authority soon will launch a new fare-payment system that affects almost every CTA and Pace rider, although transit officials have yet to fully explain how it will work. Poor communications with customers is something the CTA has...

CTA president: $3 ticket a 'voluntary payment'

2013-03-06 10:17:00

CTA President Forrest Claypool on Wednesday called a proposed cost increase for single-ride rail tickets "a voluntary payment." The CTA is proposing hiking the cost of single-ride train tickets from $2.25 to $3 when the agency rolls out its Ventra...

CTA expands ex-offender apprentice program

2013-03-06 11:02:00

Michael Russell, 38, was serving a prison sentence for selling crack-cocaine when he got a break in 2010: He started working at the CTA through a work-release program. Russell, who lives in Auburn Gresham after being released from prison last year,...

Chicago Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy, CPS CEO Barbara Byrd-Bennett and CTA President Forrest Claypool walk from Betsy Ross Elementary at 61st and Wabash to Dulles Elementary at 63rd and Calumet to experience the everyday walk students have from home to their schools.

2013-05-03 00:00:00

CTA President Forrest Claypool

2013-03-06 10:40:00

Mayor Rahm Emanuel and CTA President Forrest Claypool, second from right, applaud Michael Russell, an ex-offender who works for the CTA, as they gathered at a CTA building on Chicago's West Side to announce the expansion of an apprentice program for non-violent ex-offenders.

2013-03-06 00:00:00