[Idyllchat] Re: Chicago's O'Hare

[Irvjane at aol.com]

In a message dated 11/20/2007 10:18:16 PM Central Standard Time, 
farbenblinde at hotmail.com writes:

> Is it possible to take the train from the airport into Chicago to find 
> pizza?

Somebody on this list will know where to send you for pizza, but I do have a 
Chicago pizza story of sorts:  The first time I ever heard of pizza was when 
home (to a Chicago suburb at the time) from college at Christmas break my 
freshman year in 1952.  Some of my buddies said "Let's go get pizza."  I said, 
"What's pizza?"  They said "That new Italian food."  (Obviously it had been in 
Italian neighborhoods in many cities for some years before that!)

But yes, you can connect from either Chicago airport to the "L" system.  
O'Hare is the Blue Line that goes through a subway down Dearborn Street under The 
Loop.  Midway is the Orange Line that loops around The Loop.  There are 
various ways to connect to other L lines and to the city bus system.  See:
http://www.transitchicago.com/maps/rail/rail.html 

Unfortunately none of these come within a block of the downtown railroad 
stations that Amtrak uses, but there is a short shuttle-bus connection from 
O'Hare's "People Mover" to the suburban train network into Union Station.  Ten daily 
trains but weekdays only; schedule at 
http://metrarail.com/Sched/ncs/ncs.shtml 

Irv Smith
Missouri City TX


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