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The South Shore Line (reporting mark NICD) is an electrically powered commuter rail line operated by the Northern Indiana Commuter Transportation District (NICTD) between Millennium Station in downtown Chicago, Illinois and the South Bend Airport station in South Bend, Indiana, United States. The name refers to both the physical line and the ...
A former Chicago South Shore and South Bend "800" electric freight locomotive. The South Shore Line is the last remaining of the once numerous electric interurban trains in the United States. At its formation on November 30, 1901, the corporate title was the Chicago & Indiana Air Line Railway (Air Line). The Air Line was controlled by Frank and ...
NICTD: South Shore Line CTA Bus: 15, 28, 55, 171 59th Street/University of Chicago: CTA Bus: 2, 6, 15, 28 63rd Street: NICTD: South Shore Line CTA Bus: 63 67th Street: Closed 1984 [23] 72nd Street Closed between 1960 and 1965 75th Street (Grand Crossing) CTA Bus: 30, 75 79th Street (Chatham) CTA Bus: 79 83rd Street (Avalon Park) 87th Street ...
The South Shore Line will soon implement a new schedule that adds limited-stop express service, including a faster trip from South Bend to Chicago. South Shore Line schedule starting May 14 offers ...
It is the last station for Blue Island Branch trains before those split off of the main line for Blue Island. As of 2018, the station is the 37th busiest of Metra's 236 non-downtown stations, with an average of 1,136 weekday boardings. [1] The South Shore Line diverges to Indiana immediately south of this station. It had previously stopped at ...
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As of 2011, the tracks only exist to the former New York Central Railroad (ex-Michigan Central) line. The Chicago and Western Indiana Railroad main line (carrying trains of the Erie, Monon, Chicago and Eastern Illinois, and Wabash railroads) ran parallel to the South Shore. The New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad also had its main line to ...
Chicago had a third airport, Meigs Field, until it was demolished in 2003. There are several other smaller commercial airports in the Chicago area, these include: Gary/Chicago International Airport in Gary, Indiana, located about 25 miles SE from the Chicago loop. It is operating as the de facto "third airport" for the Chicago area.