Disappointed in Chicago (Ashland: restaurant, airport, transportation)

[coldwine]

How can you possibly be disappointed in Chicago? Our muders are up 56%. With national unemployment being so high, what we all needed was a good muder.

I just hope nobody had herpes, or else we're all going to have some very embarassing phonecalls to make

[edsg25]

Originally Posted by urbanologist

Here's just one of many impressional views you just won't get from a window of Greyhound Bus. You just have to be right in it.

very nervy of you, urbanologist; slipping in pictures of NYC and trying to pass them off as being Chicago.

[jwaiter]

Originally Posted by torontorocks

A couple days ago i passed thru Chicago on the greyhound and was underwhelmed. it looked so run down and boring and the skyline wasn't nearly as impressive as i expeced.

Whoaa! Hold up! Did you even check out the bus terminal bathrooms? They're slick, man, maybe the cleanest, freshest, coolest place to do your duty anywhere in the US. What about the bus terminal Subway? Did you even try it? Don't tell me that isn't the best Subway you've ever experienced, the ambiance, the low lighting and subtle and understated music soundtrack? The fresh veggies? It's like you've never even BEEN to the bus terminal!

[emathias]

Originally Posted by edsg25

very nervy of you, urbanologist; slipping in pictures of NYC and trying to pass them off as being Chicago.

Are you just being tongue in cheek, or are you being serious?

Because all three of those photos are definitely Chicago.

Here's the view from the street level for the two in the cluster of highrises:
gold coast, chicago - Google Maps

And I think you know for sure that the train one is Chicago, seeing as the Hancock is in the background and the Pink Line sign is in the front of the train.

[oakparkdude]

Originally Posted by emathias

Are you just being tongue in cheek, or are you being serious?

Chill. Its joke.

[edsg25]

Originally Posted by emathias

Are you just being tongue in cheek, or are you being serious?

Because all three of those photos are definitely Chicago.

Here's the view from the street level for the two in the cluster of highrises:
gold coast, chicago - Google Maps

And I think you know for sure that the train one is Chicago, seeing as the Hancock is in the background and the Pink Line sign is in the front of the train.

as a native born and life long Chicagoan, I'd say my tongue went well beyond my cheek on that one.

[edsg25]

Originally Posted by emathias

Are you just being tongue in cheek, or are you being serious?

Because all three of those photos are definitely Chicago.

Here's the view from the street level for the two in the cluster of highrises:
gold coast, chicago - Google Maps

And I think you know for sure that the train one is Chicago, seeing as the Hancock is in the background and the Pink Line sign is in the front of the train.

as a native born and life long Chicagoan, I'd say my tongue went well beyond my cheek on that one.

either that or Oakparkdude got me all wrong and I never heard of (and doubt the existence of) Oak Park.........or of Wright, Hemmingway, doopers, OPRF, or the one time "world's largest village"

as for that "pink line train", I would think that would be a neat trick since the photo is well north of Lake Street (as far north as the pink line goes). Has to be blue line train on the northwest side: not the position of the Hancock in relationship to 900 N Michigan (to the left of it) and Park Tower (Hyatt) to the right and you'd have to be pretty far north of the Loop. You can't see WTP at all since it is behind the Hancock which wouldn't block the view if you were on the Lake St. el tracks. (although I will completely agree that doesn't appear to be a blue line sign)

[emathias]

Originally Posted by edsg25

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hat would be a neat trick since the photo is well north of Lake Street (as far north as the pink line goes). Has to be blue line train on the northwest side: not the position of the Hancock in relationship to 900 N Michigan (to the left of it) and Park Tower (Hyatt) to the right and you'd have to be pretty far north of the Loop. You can't see WTP at all since it is behind the Hancock which wouldn't block the view if you were on the Lake St. el tracks. (although I will completely agree that doesn't appear to be a blue line sign)

You're wrong about the location of the photo. It is the Pink Line, turning south from Lake Street onto the Paulina Connector tracks.

The building to the far right is the Riverbend building. The lighter half (the right half) of the image of the Hancock building is the south side of the building. To the right of that is Park Hyatt blocking the view of Water Tower Place. That would only happen from somewhere SW of them. We can also tell its an older photo, because we see the IBM building behind Riverbend - a contemporary photo would show the 350 N Lasalle building, plus you would be able to see the Trump Tower behind it. But we don't, so it predates Trump.

If none of that convinces you, then you can see the roof of the Ashland/Lake Green Line stop above the very end of the train - no other branch in the city has station roofs like that.

[Alacran]

Can everyone shut up?
He has one post and it's this one.
He never came back.

[edsg25]

Originally Posted by emathias

You're wrong about the location of the photo. It is the Pink Line, turning south from Lake Street onto the Paulina Connector tracks.

The building to the far right is the Riverbend building. The lighter half (the right half) of the image of the Hancock building is the south side of the building. To the right of that is Park Hyatt blocking the view of Water Tower Place. That would only happen from somewhere SW of them. We can also tell its an older photo, because we see the IBM building behind Riverbend - a contemporary photo would show the 350 N Lasalle building, plus you would be able to see the Trump Tower behind it. But we don't, so it predates Trump.

my bad; you're right. sorry. i was trying to orient on the basis of the Hancock antennas. I do, however, see the el station up ahead there whose design is on the Lake Street line (and not on North Side lines) and I do see River Bend ahead around where the train hits the Loop.

It is interesting though since the skyline seems to present itself on that typical sort of northwest view (thinking of inbound on the Kennedy), not the more linear view coming in from the west side.

appearances are deceiving.