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Chicago is definitely enough of a 'big city' that people choose to forego car ownership. I work in an office of developers, and people only tend to get a car o

• jawilson2 8y ago
  Yep. I am a dev, and my family has one car (Honda Odyssey) out in the suburbs. The Metra is pretty incredible, and I get 1.5 hours of remote work done on it a day.
• bigpicture 8y ago
  I own two parking spaces in a private garage on the edge of downtown - have one car and rent the other space. 5 years ago, I could rent it for $300 per month with a waiting list of people that want it. Today I am renting it for $200 per month and it would take a week or so to find a new tenant. In that time, my neighborhood has grown considerably and has become much more expensive. Multiple car ownership (or ownership at all) just isn't that desirable any more and Chicago's relaxation of minimum parking requirements are very much market-driven. Parking costs a lot of money to build and takes up a lot of space in a building. Because there is nothing preventing a developer from building more parking than required, he or she has the freedom to match market demand. There is a 50-floor, ~500-unit apartment building under construction in my neighborhood that, due to its proximity to a train station, was required to build exactly 0 parking spaces. The developer chose to build around 75.
• Izkata 8y ago
  After college, I actually moved from the Chicago suburbs into the city in part because I don't like driving and didn't want to get a car. It's worked pretty well.