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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 ...
55th–56th–57th Street is a commuter rail station in Hyde Park, Chicago that serves the Metra Electric Line north to Millennium Station and south to University Park, Blue Island, and South Chicago; and the South Shore Line to Gary and South Bend, Indiana. The South Shore Line calls the station 57th Street. It is the closest station to the ...
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 ...
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).
South Shore station is an electrified commuter rail station along the South Chicago Branch of the Metra Electric Line, in the South Shore neighborhood of Chicago.Metra gives the official located at 71st Street near Yates Boulevard and South Shore Drive (U.S. Route 41), however the station is actually located on nearby Exchange Avenue, and is 10.28 miles (16.54 km) away from the northern ...
The Chicago "L" (short for "elevated") [4] is the rapid transit system serving the city of Chicago and some of its surrounding suburbs in the U.S. state of Illinois.Operated by the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA), it is the fourth-largest rapid transit system in the United States in terms of total route length, at 102.8 miles (165.4 km) long as of 2014, [1] [note 1] and the third-busiest rapid ...
Instead of flying for over two hours, I rode alone in the train's coach section for 20 hours. It was my first long train ride, and I learned a lot.
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.