Tag: Public transportation
Chicago’s best Loop / New East Side apartments – public transit access
Chicago's Loop includes the area known as the New East Side, which in turn includes the Lakeshore East development. You'll find all of your major [...]
Riding the Red Line – the all-around deplorable stations
The Tribune is reporting that the CTA has signed a contract for a $57.4 million face lift for seven of "the most shabby, leaky and all-around depl [...]
The Red Line Project, DePaul student version
A hat tip to the CTA Tattler for alerting us to The Red Line Project by DePaul University journalism students.
Joe Askins, before heading off t [...]
Riding the Red Line: Lake
Today's segment from my video series on Red Line stations is from the Lake station, located below State Street between Lake and Randolph in the Lo [...]
Quote of the day: ‘Playing a kazoo’
"Erecting a mediocre piece of urban infrastructure alongside such a campus is like showing up at a Chicago Symphony Orchestra concert and playing a ka [...]
Riding the Red Line: Roosevelt
The third stop on my tour of the Red Line was the Roosevelt station near Roosevelt Road and State Street in the South Loop.
Traveling north fro [...]
Riding the Red Line: Cermak / Chinatown
My next stop on the way north via CTA's Red Line was the Cermak / Chinatown station, located at 138 W Cermak Rd. Due to construction on the statio [...]
Riding the Red Line, starting at Sox / 35th
Last Wednesday I started what will be an ongoing project through the next month or two: a series of videos profiling each Red Line station between [...]
35th Street Metra station to open in April
A new Metra station at 35th Street will open in April, just as the Chicago White Sox kick off their 2011 season at US Cellular Field.
According [...]
Tribune: CTA to sell naming rights for rail lines, stations
From Chicago Breaking News:
The CTA will go out for bids next week to sell naming rights to its rail lines and stations, bus routes and other assets, [...]
Bridgeport Metra station nears completion
The new Metra station at 35th Street and Wentworth Avenue in Bridgeport should be finished by the end of year, Gazette Chicago reported earlier this [...]
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