The Chicago Traveler

September 25th, 2008

Forbes Declares Chicago America’s Most Stressful City

It’s been a while, but b5media’s Travel & Culture Channel is celebrating another Theme Day soon, centered on “Changes.” Change is necessary, but it can be stressful, and we Chicagoans certainly know stress. In fact, last week Forbes declared Chicago as America’s Most Stressful City. Eep!
Chicago has had to endure plenty of changes recently: flood-inducing […]

By Matt B -- 5 comments

July 8th, 2008

Public Transit Etiquette

A few folks from San Francisco, California, have created a website where they list some basic etiquette rules for riding public transit. I think politeness on buses and trains is a universal necessity though, and many of the suggestions can apply even to Chicago’s very own CTA commuters.
For example, they advise riders to keep cell […]

By Matt B -- 1 comment

April 15th, 2008

Top Ten Tax Procrastination Cities

Are your taxes done? Or have you been scrambling these past few days (or hours) to meet the deadline? If you’re among the latter, you’re not alone.
Intuit, the maker of TurboTax products, put together a list of American cities that are full of procrastinators when it comes to filing federal income tax returns. And guess […]

By Matt B -- 1 comment

May 15th, 2007

New Additions

There are a couple of new additions to our b5media Travel & Culture family.

Paul Springer writes StarkedSF, a very straightforward, no-punches-pulled look at the events, politics, and culture of the San Francisco area.

At Sirened, Alex Kallimanis reveals the misdeeds of the political and corporate world.
A big welcome to both. Be sure to check them out, […]

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