Local TV finds a new outlet: Chicago taxis

As tablets, smartphones and other mobile devices replace television as a means of watching video, broadcasters across the country — including here in Chicago — are scrambling to connect with viewers anywhere and everywhere possible. Their most recent target: taxis. While seat-back TV screens have been available in some city cabs for nearly two years — and even longer in New York — Chicago's taxis have offered little in the way of local programming. Until now.