CTA Ride Series: Full Ride on the Blue Line from Forest Park to O'Hare

Note: I switched trains at UIC-Halsted for you to see rides on old and new. I was originally not going to include the section from Forest Park to UIC-Halsted because the train went too slow, but in the end I decided to just include it anyway. Most trains are also terminating at UIC anyway because of the Congress branch reconstruction project. Welcome to the Chicago ride series! The CTA "L" system is the most famous elevated railway system in the world, comprising of eight colored lines: Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Purple, Brown, and Pink. The Blue Line is the system's longest, and there's a lot to explain about this one. It runs through the Eisenhower Expressway median (also known as the Congress branch), the Congress Parkway, Dearborn Street, and Milwaukee Avenue Subway, an elevated section, a subway connector, the Kennedy Expressway median, and the tunnel to O'Hare. It was the first train line to start the trend of tracks in a freeway median, which spread to many train lines across the country. The Blue Line was also the first to receive the most recent rolling stock in the system, the CRRC 7000 series. Trains (forgot to record the numbers): Morrison-Knudsen 3200 Series CRRC Sifang 7000 Series Chapters: 0:00 Intro 0:11 Forest Park 2:29 Harlem (*South) 5:20 Oak Park 8:48 Austin 14:10 Cicero 17:38 Pulaski 20:57 Kedzie-Homan 24:29 Western (*South) 26:35 Illinois Medical District 29:19 Racine 31:04 UIC-Halsted 32:06 Clinton 33:30 LaSalle 34:50 Jackson 36:04 Monroe 37:00 Washington 38:32 Clark/Lake 42:10 Grand/Milwaukee 43:43 Chicago/Milwaukee 46:03 Division/Milwaukee 48:30 Damen 50:39 Western (*North) 52:36 California 54:21 Logan Square 56:09 Belmont 58:02 Addison 59:38 Irving Park 1:03:09 Montrose 1:05:28 Jefferson Park 1:09:57 Harlem (*North) 1:13:14 Cumberland 1:15:14 Rosemont 1:21:11 O'Hare ©2026 TheXavier456