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• One morning in November 2004, a CTA bus stopped at Catalpa and Broadway in Uptown for a woman and her daughter, who was using a motorized wheelchair because she had torn a ligament in her…

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• Advocates for the disabled say the CTA needs to step up its commitment to making its bus and rail stations accessible in the wake of a three-month investigation by ChicagoTalks. “The CTA has to…

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• Eyes and mouths opened wide as commuters at the Jackson Street Blue Line station turned to watch a young man in a wheelchair casually roll onto an escalator and pass them on his way up, his arms…

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• On a cold November day in 2007, Georgia Willis sat on her scooter as a CTA bus lift lowered her to the ground. Before she knew it, the scooter had tipped off the lift and she hit her face on the bike…

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• Kevin Irvine was frustrated. The chairman of the CTA’s ADA Advisory Committee kept asking questions about performance reports, Web site updates and bus lift failures. But each time, he couldn’t get…

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• Nearly 20 years after the landmark Americans with Disabilities Act took effect and nine years after being sued in federal court, the CTA is still not readily accessible to hundreds of thousands of…

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• Next Wednesday May 13, 2009 at 10:00 a.m. click here to join the City Council live from the City Clerk’s site. But if you are one of the Chicagoans for whom politics is a local sport, you might want…

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• May 11, 2009 – Thirty-six students have been killed in Chicago during the 2008-09 school year. As the Chicago Public Schools’ year comes to an end, community activists, educators and police are still…

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