HubPages • 27th September 2025

The Chicago Drivers Guide to Rideshare Street Smarts: Quirky Roads/ Wacker Drive

Wacky WackerWacker Drive is a street of contrast. Traffic can move north/south on one wing of the street and east/west on the other. Wacker is only about two miles long. Yet, it crosses with at least 15 other streets and is within a block of 18 bridges that span the Chicago River.Wacker with all its connections rest entirely within the Loop. Whereas some thoroughfares have a frontage road, it has a frontage walk; Riverside Plaza.

HubPages • 25th September 2025

The 10 Best Places to Make Money Rideshare Driving in Chicago

The familiar mantra "location, location, location" is used to explain business success for everything from real estate to restaurants. Rideshare, the chauffeur on-demand service offered by Uber, Lyft, and Via follows the same model. Location matters.Chicago is a city of neighborhoods. I've found the best way to get rideshare dollars is by going to the busiest areas. Here, I list Chicago's 10 best locations to drive with a note about what makes them great.

HubPages • 25th September 2025

The Chicago Drivers Guide to Rideshare Street Smarts: City Center/The Loop

The Loop is the sun in the Chicagoland galaxy. The activity therein radiates throughout the city and surrounding metropolitan area. Downtown (i.e. City hall) decisions determine which streets in which city neighborhoods get their potholes filled.

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HubPages • 5th June 2025

https://discover.hubpages.com/literature/The-Literary-Hall-of-James-Super-7-Island-Classics

No story is an Island but islands make for great stories.

HubPages • 28th May 2025

Juneteenth: A Celebration of Freedom

The date associated with the Union soldiers' victorious advance is June 19, 1865. The previously bound people welcomed the reprieve so much that they invented a new word. They merged the words "June" and "nineteenth" with an ingenious bit of indigenous vernacular to form the word Juneteenth.

HubPages • 9th May 2025

Daniel Diet: The Best Remedies for Cold/Flu Relief and Prevention

Daniel- His StoryThe biblical prophet Daniel showed no fear at the prospect of being fed to the lions. (see Daniel 6:10 Holy Bible) However, the ideal of eating the same food as everyone else worried him. (Daniel 1:8)

LetterPile • 25th April 2025

The Literary "Hall of James" Favorite Fictional Characters /Bagheera

James came to know Bagheera from books borrowed from his home town library while in grade school. Baggy is still among his favorites

Bagheera was a big cat who hung out with a bear and wolves. That alone makes him stand out.

Best among the Beast

Bagheera is my favorite animal among fictional literary characters. I being canine centric tend to favor dogkind. Raksha, a wolf from the same story, displayed fearlessness defending Mowgli her adopted man cub. She is the only one among the four legge

HubPages • 22nd March 2025

The Chicago Drivers Guide to Rideshare Street Smarts: Dominant Diagonals/ Archer Avenue

Archer helped build Chicago. The Illinois and Michigan (I&M) canal, the C.T.A.’s (Chicago Transit Authority) Orange Line rails and the Stevenson Expressway align with Archer.

LetterPile • 10th December 2024

The Literary "Hall of James" Favorite Fictional Characters / Teresa Mendoza

James is a fan of action adventure stories that have a historical element to them..

The Queen of the South (cover)

Life gave Teresa Mendoza lemons and she made lemonade… with a vengeance. Teresa, better known by her alias, “the queen of the south”, took her lemons and squeezed out lemonade using an ingredient mixture of good fortune and even better fortitude. As a result, she transformed from a mild mannered girlfriend of a Sinaloa drug cartel pilot (Güero Dávila) into a mysterious, enterprisi

ToughNickel • 7th November 2024

The Chicago Driver's Guide to Rideshare Street Smarts: Busy Boulevards/Michigan Ave

I drive people to their destinations as I drive towards my destiny.

Frank Sinatra croons “State Street that great street” in his lyrical homage to Chicago. To me, Michigan Avenue is that great street when it comes to rideshare driving. It offers tremendous money-making opportunity.

Michigan Ave is not a boulevard for its whole length. Its non-boulevard south side trek flows practically uninterrupted from 31st Street towards the southernmost city limits. Here it runs north to south and includes

ToughNickel • 27th June 2024

The Chicago Drivers' Guide to Rideshare Street Smarts: The Lake's Edge—Near South Side

James has driven rideshare good through all 77 Chicago neighborhoods.

The ten best rideshare driving locales include seven with Lake Michigan beach fronts. The remaining three rub elbows with Chicago River banks at some point. Near South Side shares a coast line with both the Chicago River and Lake Michigan.Its city center location flanked by Chicago’s premier waters draw residents, visitors and their rideshare demand.

Neighborhoods that provide two sources of extraordinary demand will make yo

HubPages • 22nd June 2024

The Literary "Hall of James" Favorite Fictional Characters /Miss Clara

Her story is named “War Room” for a reason. She declares war on the devil. Given that she is a military veteran’s widow, her warrior instincts don't come as a surprise. She is tactical and fanatical in her battle against the dark side.

20th June 2024

Literary "Hall of James" Review: The Emperor of Ocean Park

The Emperor’s instructions removes his son , Talcott, from his comfortable yet uninspiring life to a desperate murky chase for a truth he doesn’t want to know. It’s not just the truth that he pursues that gets exposed. It’s also the truth of his life and the truth about him that comes to light.

Medium • 27th November 2023

Benedict Donald and the Battle for the Ballots: Just Getting Started

To put it bluntly the reasoning in this decision left me in a haze. I will explain why this ruling initially blew me away

HubPages • 14th November 2023

Drama King

Disaffected groups were smitten by devilish Don’s baller status and validation of them. Like many they ignored their friends’ warnings...
America knew better but like so many good girls she still fell for the thug.

3rd November 2023

Luck of the Puck: An Automilegraphical Account

The hockey angels smiled upon me while driving rideshare in Chicago. The Blackhawks supplied more and better-quality sporting related trips than all other city sports teams except the Cubs.

20th September 2023

Joseph and the 7 Year Rich: An Expert’s Advice for Today

He was betrayed by evil stepbrothers, enslaved and shipped to a foreign nation- all before his 18th birthday

Medium • 5th September 2023

Don't Get Caught With Your Plants Down-Think Global, Do Local

California and other western states put the Colorado River system to heavy use for agriculture and their growing urban/suburban populations’ needs. Given that so much of our groceries are rooted there, we who aren’t in the west also need this system to work. And if it doesn’t work food deserts expand.

15th April 2023

Jackie Robinson: A True Sports Hero

...it seems unnatural and unholy to hate someone on sight and sight alone.

10th March 2023

Spring Has Sprung

“Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not neither do they reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them…. ” Matthew 6:26

2nd December 2022

The Night Before Christmas

the herdsmen afraid
shake their knees
but news
of good tidings
soon set them
at ease

17th November 2022

The Grassroots Are Greener on the Same side

...for all the tweeting, texting, friending, blogging, television and money, one thing remains clear: word of mouth never goes out of style. Conversations still matter.

Arlington National Cemetary via flickr Public Domain

11th November 2022

Literary Hall of James Critique: Miracle at St.Anna

19th July 2022

The Word Courier Annals- Green Eggs and Ham

The myth that black people are cursed because of Ham still lingers. It's time to put the Ham scam to rest.