Chicago's 11th Street Museum Campus
My schedule changed today, and I had the chance to wait for the Metra Electric train at a downtown stop I usually pass through: the 11th Street-Museum Campus station. Stations like this have been around so long, are so well-frequented, and are such institutions that they have their own Wikipedia entry. The current name is a bit of an inelegant mouthful: it used to be called the Roosevelt Road Station.
But in the ten or so minutes I had in the early evening, waiting for the train, I came to feel this is one of the more beautiful Metra stations south of the Loop. You get more distance from the city here: close, but not so close that you lose a sense of its stature. The main skyline of the city can be viewed to the to the north of the platform. The imposing residential towers of the South Loop are on one side, and the Museum buildings make up a third.
Above: the sun eclipsed by a building in the South Loop