View from my temporary home in downtown Chicago

An elevated train runs past my hotel toward The Loop in downtown Chicago. - photo by Joe Alexander
An elevated train runs past my hotel toward The Loop in downtown Chicago. – photo by Joe Alexander
The view from my home base in Chicago (plus a close-up of the moose mural). The tracks I can see from my window carries the Orange Line, which runs from Midway Airport to The Loop.

I was staying at the Travelodge on Harrison Street – which was about the cheapest hotel I could find in the neighborhood south of the loop and near Grant Park.

My hotel was located about four blocks from the Adams/Wabash station on The Loop – one of the stops for the Orange Line. I was also about a block from the Harrison Station of the Red Line – which runs north to the Cubs’ Wrigley Field and south to the White Sox’s Rate Field.

One amusing note: My sister visited Chicago about a month before me. I didn’t know it at the time, but she also took a picture of the moose.

View from my hotel room with Roosevelt University in downtown Chicago. - photo by Joe Alexander
View from my hotel room with Roosevelt University in downtown Chicago.
Mural near my hotel in downtown Chicago. - photo by Joe Alexander
Mural near my hotel in downtown Chicago.
View of the moose mural from my hotel in downtown Chicago. - photo by Joe Alexander
View of the moose mural from my hotel in downtown Chicago.
A closer look at the moose mural in downtown Chicago. - photo by Joe Alexander
A closer look at the moose mural by Jacob Watts in downtown Chicago.

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