Favorite Place: CTA Brown Line

My next favorite place moves around the city on elevated tracks.

It offers a surprisingly nice (and seated!) tour of the city, for much less than the double-decker bus tours. Although I hear those are nice, too.

It's the CTA Brown Line.

Here's the plan: If you're downtown, a little fatigued, and looking for a place to sit down for a half hour, skip the cafe and jump on the Brown Line instead. Or better yet, grab something to drink and then get on. You can board the Brown Line from lots of Loop locations - I recommend getting on at Washington and Wells, then riding the line around the Loop and north of the river.

(click here for a larger version of the map)

Then you can hop off at Fullerton or Belmont, both good neighborhood stops for food, shopping, etc.

On the way, get up-close views of downtown building facades, the Chicago River, and more.



I realize that not everyone gets as excited about public transportation as I do, but after a couple of years driving five minutes to a job because of discontinuous sidewalks and non-existent bus lines, it's a treat for me.

Just avoid rush hour on a weekday. Unless you really, really love humanity...

Enjoy!

xoxo
C