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Wasn’t too bad until they flooded the tunnels downtown and changed the parking, early 1990’s?.
Went from bad to worse...

I had a company car and a parking spot in the building.
The company paid for the train, and I could adjust my hours to the schedule most days, so the train it was.

One day I noticed one of my guys coming in on a bicycle, I knew he lived in Arlington Hts. He would park in Greektown, just west of the Kennedy and ride the bike in.

Even days visiting some far off outpost of the company empire, much better than the city.

I HATE CHICAGO.

“Wasn’t too bad until they flooded the tunnels downtown and changed the parking, early 1990’s?.”

It was after the Great Flood. Before that you could walk underground in the winter from the heart of the Loop all the way to the Mag Mile if you knew your way around. There were shops and restaurants in the old coal tunnels back then.

I rather lucky as my office is adjacent to The Mart. Relatively cheap Early Bird is available pretty much right at my building.

“One day I noticed one of my guys coming in on a bicycle,”

One of my coworkers does that. He has a cheap bike with a very good lock that he leaves where he gets off the El and rides the rest of the way in. Pretty ingenious of him.

“Even days visiting some far off outpost of the company empire, much better than the city.”

Due to company policy I start most days in the office and then head out to see customers in the north and west burbs. It’s stupid but the mileage reimbursement is good and my boss doesn’t look too closely at my expense reports because he does the same thing. When it makes sense I take Metra in but I only do that when I must because I CC every single day. Metra frowns on that.

But concealed means just that. No one will know unless something really, really bad happens. Better to be judged by 12 and all that.

Best of luck to you. Things are going to get squirrelly in Chi Town once the weather warms up.