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Message: <blockquote data-quote="eris404" data-source="post: 2640580" data-attributes="member: 5338">The weather is changeable, but usually around freezing with snow optional. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />I take the Red Line downtown every day for work. It runs north-south from the extreme ends of the city. It's usually packed at rush hour, with no place to sit. Very often, the cars smell like urine. Sometimes people walk through the cars while the train is moving, either to find a seat or to ask people for money. There is a recorded voice that announces the stops and which side of the train (in the direction of travel) the doors will open. As you go south, the train is above ground until it reaches the Fullerton stop, then it goes underground (this is mostly the downtown area) and then it goes back above ground after Roosevelt. Train riders can be anyone from bums to businessmen and everything in between.A couple of good locations for a low-income family on the north side would be Uptown and Rogers Park. Both are being gentrified now and were much worse 5-10 years ago. Uptown has the added benefit of being the old gangster hangouts with places like the Uptown Theatre, the Riviera Nightclub, etc.As for a place to meet people with magic powers, I would suggest Graceland Cemetery. It is an enormous cemetery on the north side where many prominent and famous people have been buried. Besides that, it is just a magical place (to me at least) with a lake that has an island in its center, tons of beautiful crypts and the infamous "Eternal Silence" monument:<a href="http://www.graveyards.com/graceland/esilence.html" target="_blank">http://www.graveyards.com/graceland/esilence.html</a>I also have a story about Graceland. I used to go there a lot to read and walk around (it has a very park-like atmosphere) and I had a crow try to talk to me. It flew down from a tree to rest at a monument not far from where I was sitting and made these "Hey! Hey!" noises, the sort of thing you'd do to get someone's attention. I'm sure it was just trying to get me out of its territory and was only immitating the speech of visitors, but frankly it spooked me so I did leave. There are lots of crows that roost there and I didn't want any trouble.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

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