By Sarah Freishtat From Chicago Tribune The number of tourists, office workers and partyers venturing out in Chicago is ticking up, and ride-share prices are rising with them. The surge has left many riders wondering: when will prices go back down? Ride-share users paid an average of $26.43 per trip in June, Chicago city data shows—the highest monthly average since the city began tracking data in November 2018, and nearly $10 more than the same month in 2019. The increase meant the average ride-share trip in June cost a little more than the average trip by taxi, which is regulated by the city. That was a reversal from two years earlier when passengers paid nearly $2 more to travel by cab. The uptick in ride-share prices was enough to convince Mike Morgan and his wife, Elena, to rely on the “L to get around the city on a recent trip …
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