As a user of the CTA, have you ever stopped and thought about how much you spend on transit weekly or even monthly? In these times, I’m sure you have. I graduated from Columbia College Chicago in 2007; during my time there I was provided a CTA U-Pass, a master key to all that is [...]
Chicago Public Transit becoming UNSAFE for Mobile Electronics Users
Over the past few weeks, an increasing amount of robberies have been committed on a few CTA trains and buses. The thefts were mainly of the popular Apple iPhone, iPod, and other mobile electronics; such as smartphones and mobile gaming devices. A few of the robberies were armed but many involved robbers watching oblivious iPhone [...]
Three Things I’ve learned from this winter season so far
Now that it has been finally stopped snowing and all of Chicago’s various advisories and warnings have been cancelled, I thought it be nice to recap a couple of lessons learned from, not just the past couple of days, but the winter so far. 1. If I see a single snowflake I instantly double my [...]
10 People You See on the CTA
Hi, my name is Jonathan, and I ride the CTA. I ride it at least 10 times a week–to and from work, and occasionally late night. And let me tell you, I’ve ran across many different types of people that also rock Chicago transit. Some people are like you and me–you know, average Chicagoans. But [...]
A Few Things in Chicago That…We Despise, Need to be Removed or Obliterated
If you’re a resident of Chicago or have visited the city several times you should be able to relate to some of the things within the city that theaveragechicagoan.com crew wishes were gone from our great town. These are the annoyances that piss you off, drive you crazy, make you reconsider residing here, and make [...]