Downtown Chicago, Illinois

(L) A route display of Chicago CTA. The railway tracks extend to the north, west and south centering the Chicago Loop.
(R) Looking toward the downtown, the Loop, photographed from the 35th-Bronzeville-IIT Station of Green Line.
The station is situated east of State Street. and opened in 1892. The station serves the Illinois Institute of Technology.

(L) CTA Red Line train runs slowly on the overhead rail track on the Wabashi Avenue.
It is rather surprise for us that this railway scene has not been changed and keeping the same way for the period of one century.
(R) An elevated CTA station over the Wabashi Avenue.

(L) CTA Railways' radial track lines start from the center of Chicago city, the loop.
(R) Overhead train runs slowly in the Chicago Loop.

(L) CTA trains run with a roaring sound on the overhead railway bridge on Wabashi Avenue, the center of Chicago.
(R) The Chicago Theater on the State Street, downtown Chicago.

(L) Overhead Adams Station near the Art Institute of Chicago. (M)(R) The interior of CTA train.

An emergency talk button provided in each CTA train.

(L) CTA Green Line train runs near the Conservatory -Central Park Station.
(R) A station building of the Conservatory -Central Park Drive Station. Is this station 'a fairy tale' style?

(L) A backyard of the Greenfield Park Conservatory. (R) A giant lily pad in the greenhouse. This can be found in the tropics only.

(L) The entrance to the Greenfield Park Conservatory.
(R) The inside of a hothouse was at the level of 29C., at the time the writervisit there.


CTA（シカゴ高架鉄道・地下鉄道）案内 ＣＴＡの電車は日中は比較的頻繁に運行されており、ビジターパスさえ
持っていれば出費を気にすることなく移動できるので大変便利である。シカゴ・ループから、Red、Brown、Blue、
Green、Orange Line などが放射状に南北または西方向に路線を延ばしている。シカゴ治安は以前とは異なり、
そう悪くないが、夜間の利用や地区によっては注意が必要、各車両には運転手と連絡できる非常用ボタンがある。

シカゴ市中心部よりＣＴＡで１０分ほどでGreenfield Park Conservatory に来ることが出来る。１００年の歴史
ある施設で、広大な温室に多くの湿地植物、砂漠植物などがよく手入れされ保存されている。都会の喧噪から離れ
静かに過ごすことも出来る場所だ。無料で開放されている。

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シカゴ・市内郊外鉄道
2008年5月執筆 2009年10月英文加筆　医学博士　宮本順伯
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