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Not every train serves that station, though, so check signs or schedules before boarding.
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The Metra Union Pacific North Line stops in Rogers Park (at Lunt Ave) before moving on to Evanston. The CTA Yellow Line from Skokie ends at Howard. The CTA Purple Line runs from Evanston to Howard, continuing non-stop southward to the Belmont station in Lakeview during weekday rush periods. Travelers with disabilities should plan to disembark at Howard, Loyola or Granville and use a bus to cover any remaining distance to their destinations. (There is a major bus terminal adjacent to the Howard station - see below.) The dilapidated, urine-soaked Morse and Jarvis were two of the worst stations in the CTA 'L' system before their renovations.
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The CTA Red Line runs from the Loop to Edgewater (Berwyn, Bryn Mawr, Thorndale, Granville) and Rogers Park (Loyola, Morse, Jarvis), eventually terminating at Howard Street on the border of Evanston. Today, it segues neatly into Andersonville to the south, with a few gay cultural institutions and several nice restaurants, coffee shops and bars. It was originally demarcated as part of the Uptown community area, but when that area went into economic decline, Edgewater residents swiftly seceded and established their own neighborhood. The only day not to go is Tuesday, when many businesses and restaurants are closed.Įdgewater, on the other hand, is remarkably laid-back. Between roughly 2200 W and 2700 W Devon, among thriving import stores that specialize in saris, spices, and the latest Bollywood dreams, there are a number of amazing Indian and Pakistani restaurants that will almost certainly spoil you for the stuff back home (assuming "back home" is anywhere but the Indian subcontinent). For a visitor, special mention has to go to the Indian community on Devon Avenue. Rogers Park has always been the most beautiful place in Chicago where basically anyone could afford to live - silent Irish generations still fighting the Cabbage Head War in their sleep, and immigrants newly arrived from Serbia, from Jamaica, from the Sudan. The diversity, too, is unrivaled in a notoriously segregated city. Only one famous name is still in the area (Frank Lloyd Wright's Emil Bach House), but the routine beauty of the architecture in Rogers Park and West Ridge is still incredible. As the city surged north, a building boom followed, and Rogers Park was blessed with a gorgeous stock of residential and commercial buildings West Ridge wound up with long blocks of lovely, modest Prairie-style bungalows. With regular floods from the wild and swampy beaches to the east, annexation to Chicago and its sewage services proved a strong temptation. In this way, many of the neighborhood's key events can be understood: the secession of the West Ridge area (sometimes called West Rogers Park) over whether to incorporate as a village (which they did anyway) the 1894 "Home-Made Transfer War," in which Rogers Park residents stuck it to railroad tycoon Charles Yerkes by refusing to pay extra to ride the northern extension of his streetcar line, and tried to pass off the transfers they'd made at home on the conductors and the "Cabbage Head War" of 1896, in which a Rogers Park politician gave unsophisticated West Ridge farmers an unflattering nickname, and they proved him wrong by putting cabbages on poles and marching on his house. The nature of Rogers Park is calamity amid beauty and the equality of impulse toward each. But he was stuck in Chicago because the waterways back to New York were frozen, so Rogers had to wait out the winter by the spring, he had a line on a pretty good team of oxen, so he headed as far north as he could, past the limits of the city and its fringe settlements, out to wild swampland where Indian villages were still resident - and there began Rogers Park. There was mud everywhere, the narrow streets were choked and chaotic, and the winters were brutal. When Philip Rogers arrived in Chicago for the first time in 1834, he immediately began making plans to leave.