Chicago Gameday XV: Thanks for the memories

[Vyvyan Basterd]

Nope. And cell phone reception inside can be a bit sketchy, too.

Meh, my wife will be sitting next to me, so the only other call I would get is from Grandma telling us one of the boys has killed the other. She can handle it.

 

[Mark CMG]

Meh, my wife will be sitting next to me, so the only other call I would get is from Grandma telling us one of the boys has killed the other. She can handle it.

Or from the boys, huddled in a closet with a cell phone, trying desparately to call and explain why Grandma is viciously chipping through the door with an ice pick . . .

 

[Kelleris]

I think I've got a bit of a problem here. I only have access to public transportation - the El and the Metra - and I'm not sure how to get from the Loyola stop on the Red Line to Games Plus. The CTA and Metra web sites don't seem to be tremendously helpful. Could someone with more knowledge of the area possibly clue me in? Thanks.

 

[Mark CMG]

I used to live at Grandville and Kenmore, years ago. I would suggest that you can take the Red Line down to Foster, the Foster bus to Jefferson Park (First Train is at 8:48AM), and there catch the Metra (not the CTA Blue Line) out to Mount Prospect (Metra Union Pacific Northwest Line). Alternately, you can take the Red Line downtown, then walk over to the Ogilvie Transportation Center to catch the Metra out to Mount Prospect (First Train is at 8:30AM). the Mount Prospect Metra Station is about a hundred and fifty paces from the store. You can get a Metra Train schedule here (the store is south of the tracks and to the west of the station, the green star, at the intersection of Wille and Prospect Ave). It's the same train, of course, and the bus ride might be less distance but more time (and more likely to run into difficulties as the Foster bus basically starts out at the Red Line, Thorndale stop, I believe, and ends at the Jefferson Park Station - the longest possible bus ride). I'd stick with the Red Line downtown and save the hassles of transferring. It'll take about twenty minutes to get from a downtown stop to Ogilvie Station, on Madison, if you walk it.

You can work out your schedule to get to either the Jefferson Park Metra Station or the Ogilvie Transportation Center by using the "Trip Planner" on the COT website here. Just load your address and the name of either station and it should give you some alternatives. Be sure to check the Metra Schedule first for the departure time from both stations so that you can include it in the trip planner. Good luck!

 

[BOZ]

buzz asked me to post...

my car died on monday, and my wife will be using hers. now, i will be in buffalo grove in the morning anyway, but i may or may not be able to find a way to get to games plus and back home again. so, while i'm not exactly "out", i can no longer guarantee that i will be there either.

 

[Mark CMG]

buzz asked me to post...

my car died on monday, and my wife will be using hers. now, i will be in buffalo grove in the morning anyway, but i may or may not be able to find a way to get to games plus and back home again. so, while i'm not exactly "out", i can no longer guarantee that i will be there either.

To post for him or for yourself? We'll be missing one of you but which one?

 

[Kelleris]

I used to live at Grandville and Kenmore, years ago. I would suggest that you can take the Red Line down to Foster, the Foster bus to Jefferson Park (First Train is at 8:48AM), and there catch the Metra (not the CTA Blue Line) out to Mount Prospect (Metra Union Pacific Northwest Line). Alternately, you can take the Red Line downtown, then walk over to the Ogilvie Transportation Center to catch the Metra out to Mount Prospect (First Train is at 8:30AM). the Mount Prospect Metra Station is about a hundred and fifty paces from the store. You can get a Metra Train schedule here (the store is south of the tracks and to the west of the station, the green star, at the intersection of Wille and Prospect Ave). It's the same train, of course, and the bus ride might be less distance but more time (and more likely to run into difficulties as the Foster bus basically starts out at the Red Line, Thorndale stop, I believe, and ends at the Jefferson Park Station - the longest possible bus ride). I'd stick with the Red Line downtown and save the hassles of transferring. It'll take about twenty minutes to get from a downtown stop to Ogilvie Station, on Madison, if you walk it.

You can work out your schedule to get to either the Jefferson Park Metra Station or the Ogilvie Transportation Center by using the "Trip Planner" on the COT website here. Just load your address and the name of either station and it should give you some alternatives. Be sure to check the Metra Schedule first for the departure time from both stations so that you can include it in the trip planner. Good luck!

Hoy. Well, I'll see if I can make heads or tails of all that tomorrow. At least now I know it's possible to get to Games Plus without a car. Although the fact that you wished me good luck on getting there does not, perhaps, bode well for my chances...

 

[rvalle]

Hoy. Well, I'll see if I can make heads or tails of all that tomorrow. At least now I know it's possible to get to Games Plus without a car. Although the fact that you wished me good luck on getting there does not, perhaps, bode well for my chances...

It shouldn't be that hard. It will take some time though with those buses and then a train.

Jefferson Park is a bus depo and a train station. 2 train stations actually as you can catch an El there too (Hmm, I wonder if you can get there via El... its the Blue Line). You want to head for the tunnel and then go up stairs.

Hope that helps some.

rv

 

[Pbartender]

my car died on monday, and my wife will be using hers. now, i will be in buffalo grove in the morning anyway, but i may or may not be able to find a way to get to games plus and back home again. so, while i'm not exactly "out", i can no longer guarantee that i will be there either.

Buffalo Grove isn't that far from Mount Prospect... Where will you be in Buffalo Grove?

 

[buzz]

To post for him or for yourself? We'll be missing one of you but which one?

For himself. BOZ had emailed me, and I asked him to let the thread know about his bad auto karma.

Don't worry, I will be there.