Slab BBQ
Metra Electric District train 334 makes its stop at Bryn Mawr, in the middle of 71st Street on the South Chicago Branch during a light snowfall on a frigid evening that was making a filling dinner at this barbecue joint more and more attractive as the minutes wore by.
This station- not to be confused with the stop of the same name on CTA's Red Line- almost as far up on the north side of the city as this one is on the south side (public transit travel time between the two, for what it's worth, is about 90 minutes on a good day)- bears the original name of the neighborhood, as christened by early real estate developers. The area has long been known as South Shore, however, and has always been an important commercial and high-density residential area, abutting the lakefront and Jackson Park as it does. Though the area increasingly faces serious crime and violence, the commercial strip along 71st, anchored by the Metra Electric line, remains one of Chicago's densest and busiest south-side neighborhoods.
Slab BBQ
Metra Electric District train 334 makes its stop at Bryn Mawr, in the middle of 71st Street on the South Chicago Branch during a light snowfall on a frigid evening that was making a filling dinner at this barbecue joint more and more attractive as the minutes wore by.
This station- not to be confused with the stop of the same name on CTA's Red Line- almost as far up on the north side of the city as this one is on the south side (public transit travel time between the two, for what it's worth, is about 90 minutes on a good day)- bears the original name of the neighborhood, as christened by early real estate developers. The area has long been known as South Shore, however, and has always been an important commercial and high-density residential area, abutting the lakefront and Jackson Park as it does. Though the area increasingly faces serious crime and violence, the commercial strip along 71st, anchored by the Metra Electric line, remains one of Chicago's densest and busiest south-side neighborhoods.