Beyond The Rattle And Clatter: When The CTA 'L' Is Your Neighbor

Curious City

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🗓️ 10 June 2015

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Living near the CTA means life in a rattling fishbowl, but some Chicagoans adapt.

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0:00.0	When were the...
0:03.7	What school's...
0:06.0	Who decides what the next...
0:08.0	Where's that story?
0:09.2	Why they give the look?
0:11.2	What is this?
0:13.6	It's a curious city.
0:14.8	Where WBEZ answers your questions about Chicago, the region, and its people.
0:20.5	Hi, I'm Maribon Knight, and I'm exploring a listener's question about what it's like to,
0:25.3	oh, wait, hold on.
0:30.4	What it's like to live next to the CTA's L train tracks.
0:34.6	For Eleni Chapin, our questioner, it all started when she saw what she thought
0:38.8	might be her dream home while riding the brown line near the Ravenswood neighborhood.
0:42.8	And I just saw it and I said, oh man, a yellow house. That's great. I always wondered what
0:48.2	goes on in there. I imagine them never being able to open their windows or them wearing earplugs all the time
0:56.7	and they'd be having dinner and the spoons and forks are all shaking but they just deal with it.
1:04.6	To answer Eleni's question about life with the L train as a neighbor, we thought we should hear the tale firsthand from the people at the Yellow House. I'm a little nervous. I don't want them to think I'm like stalking their
1:15.4	house. Should you have any doorbell?
1:19.8	Hello? Hi. Hi. How Mary?
1:23.2	What a beautiful home. I can hear her first hand.
1:26.8	Yeah. What a beautiful home. I can hear her first hand.
1:36.5	And it's even louder outside.
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