Hell is for Red Line Riders

Rich Izzo has a particularly fine piece ("To Howard And Back") on This Is Grand which is well worth a few minutes of your time.

There are bad places in Chicago to be up and about at 4AM; the Red Line is the only bad neighborhood that moves.

Incidentally, This Is Grand will be publishing my account of a recent Metra experience sometime in October. Jonathan Messinger, the genius behind TiG, apparently liked my piece so much that he's temporarily suspending his CTA-only focus.