Another lame station and pretty nasty place to be. Irving Park has a station on the Blue Line. Of…read moreimportance is that it's one of the last stops before O'Hare. Metra also has a station you can get to from here. This has a reputation for being windy. Busy station compared to any. It serves the Blue Line. This is one of the final stops before the L gets to O'Hare, and so it's busy most of the time. It has numerous transportation options surrounding it. There's a Metra station, the UP Northwest Line, that's here so you can easily transfer between these. Also there's a parking lot for those in cars. The Kennedy goes along this station and it's fucking loud. Pulaski is another major street close by. There's no need to say a lot of people pass through here daily, so it's not good for those with social anxiety, or those who don't like smelling body odor. Good transportation options make this as good as it is. It also is close to many restaurants and shopping, so it gets points for location. This gets even better if you're able to hold your breath, and avoid the rancid stench.

It's the blue line. Hard to rate very high. This location can be a little confusing in where you…read morewant to exit and it can make a huge difference to be wrong. Outdoors so can be cold and long walk to trains. Nicely located in area though and accessible.

I'm so impressed with Metra. Almost always on time, and the conductors are so professional and…read morekind. I'm so glad I switched from CTA for my work commute!

All Metra stations are NOT created equally. The Irving Park Metra Station wasn't created at all,…read morereally. It's more of a Metra stop, not Metra station. I love riding the Metra, I really do, but the Irving Park Metra Station is pretty non-existent save for a platform and three or four "shelters," which are really just roofs on support posts. In the winter, there is no protection from the wind and elements. I suggest hiding out in the stairwells to the platform until the train comes when it's really cold and windy. The address for this Metra stop is kind of deceiving. The address listed above is the official address used on the Metra site, but the location of the inbound platform is really the Irving Park Road entrance to the Kennedy Expressway. The location of the outbound platform is really the intersection of north Avondale and Kedvale avenues. Another note about this Metra stop is that there is no pedestrian bridge extending over the tracks from the inbound and outbound platforms. The only way to get from one platform to the other is to walk all the way around to the traffic bridge at Irving Park Road and Avondale. Also, there is no parking lot for this stop, but there are metered parking spots on Avondale Avenue. There's not much to this Metra station. It gets two stars because of its location, which is right next to the Irving Park Blue Line stop, but that's really its only positive.

This is an outdoor, covered, center-island platform station on Chicago's 'L' blue line. The station…read moreis clean and seemingly well lit. The station is staffed, and digital signage is present. There are two entrances upstairs on both sides of Montrose Ave. For amenities, it has a bike rack and a Pepsi machine. A bench or maybe two, and is rather narrow (though I find that often with CTA stations). There are up escalators only, no elevators. There are transfers to busses and Metra nearby. The only real complaint I have is regarding noise. With the highway on both sides, the loudness is unpleasant. With all this, Montrose gets the job done. It's by no means a 'destination' but is easy to navigate and not unpleasant (except for being in the middle of the Kennedy Expressway).

CTA has a station at Montrose. It provides convenient access to downtown and O'Hare. Lots of…read moreconnections to buses that make stops. Kind of clean compared to others so that's good. There's access close by for Metra. Best thing is the convenience. It serves the Blue Line. The station is pretty clean for the most part, and should be, because it was renovated not very long ago and looks modern. Above ground so it has the cleaner air. This is located in the Kennedy Expressway so it gets noisy with all the traffic. Has good things about it. It's close to the Mayfair Metra station. There's usually trains coming pretty often weekdays and even weekends.

If you enter from the Milwaukee street side and walk down the platform, going to the loop on on the…read moreright-hand side and you have to walk away from the escalator where you went down from because the train stops on the other end, for the line that goes downtown.

CTA has a station at Logan Square that is actually pretty clean mostly. It doesn't look like much…read more Maybe the best thing is that it has multiple entrances and you can get in here all these different ways. Always has trains coming just minutes apart. This is a quick ride either to the Loop or O'Hare so a pretty good location. It gets so many riders at this station because it's a popular area. It serves the Blue Line. This is a major commuter route. A ton of people get off here. There's a need for all these entrances and they all lead to one platform. It somehow isn't all that crowded. This is one of the first stops coming from O'Hare. It's probably the first of these worth getting off if you don't live around any. There's lots of trendy coffee shops and restaurants. Fun place to get out and hang. The station itself also has some cool artwork to check out. An important area. It has lots to do around here. There's also access to busses outside the main station.

I absolutely love this line of the Metra. This stop is a standard city location as it doesn't not…read morehave an actual housing/sheltered facility for waiting unlike its suburb stops on the way (Union Station is the exception to this). With that said, it can be pretty cold in the winter months waiting on the train but if you can live with that, then this is the stop for you. The train is usually on time and I love that I can walk to this stop in under 2 minutes right after I get off the CTA Blue Line Montrose stop

Nothing fancy here....yet. I've lived in the neighborhood for over 25 years and didn't know this…read moreplace was an active Metra spot until 5 years ago when Google showed me the fastest way to get to work lol. It looks pretty run down from the street so I thought it was always one of those abandoned Chicago train stops. I guess I was wrong. I mean it gets you to where u need to go, there are benches to sit on with the occasional homeless person taking shelter there. (If I was homeless I'd be doing the same thing?). No heating lamps available during the winter but there is a shelter where the benches are available. But guess what? They just started doing construction on this stop as of June 2017 and hopefully it gets remodeled? Keeping my fingers crossed!

As Metra stations go, this is bare-bones. It's 2 platforms with an un-gated crossing and no…read moreservices. There's a sheltered bench on each side, and the shelters are fairly deep--way better than a bus shelter. The station is reached by a standard urine-soaked stairway or ramp. The locale seems a bit sketchy to me, although fine during the day. W did see Metra Police on the platform and boarding the train on one visit, which makes me feel safer. There are tacos available within blocks of the station, as is Studio 41, a home renovation showroom (my reason for using the station). What's cool about this station (if you're traveling with a 5 year old who's utterly obsessed with rail travel) is the spur that splits off from the main line, just past the platform. Both times we visited, a CSX freight engine was delivering railcars to a factory, so we got to watch workers manually operate the switch, decouple cars, return the switch to it's original setting and head back to the depot. Big doings. We also saw long freight trains, coming past between Metra trains. So, it's great if you're into trains, and also if you're trying to hit the west edge of Logan Square and you don't want to walk from the El.

Awesome place! I travel from here a lot. Buses are nice and the crime here is during the night. The…read moreblue line is pretty safe on the north side so I have no issue. The metra here is awesome too!

I've been relying on the Blue Line 4eva. The first time I took the Blue line downtown Jefferson…read morePark was still the end of the line before the extension out to O'Hare. At the time my Ma & Pa lived in Mt Prospect near Camp McDonald & River road. I would drive to Golf Mill where I would take a bus to Jefferson Park for my trip downtown. The Jefferson Park hub is a major transportation center not just for the Blue Line Train, but all the buses that come to the terminal. In addition there is a Metra train stop at the Jefferson Park location. Back in the day when I worked downtown I relied on the Blue line for daily commute. What a nightmare to have to drive downtown, fight the traffic & then pay $30-$40 dollars for parking. Why when you can kick back on the train without all the aggravation. The train goes all the way into O'Hare to the Northwest, downtown along Dearborn then swings west to the end of the line at Forest Park.

I always took this train some times they are delayed but this week they are really really late I…read morewas waiting for 40 Minutes to took this train

CTA has a station at Kimball. It's also the terminal for the Brown Line. Okay, that's all that can…read morebe said about it without going on a rage. Besides being a train station, this also doubles as a homeless shelter apparently. The actual station bites but there's some fun bars and restaurants around it. Bad place to go to, and a good place to get away from. It serves the Brown Line. The station is in Albany Park. For as bad as it used to be, the neighborhood has improved a lot but could still use some improvement. There's a few cool places like Hot Dog Station and Nighthawk across Kimball. Homeless people seem to like it around here. There's always some hanging out. Convenient getting on a train because there's always some waiting to go. It unfortunately happens to stink figuratively and literally. There may be one to get on, but the Brown Line is slow for trains.

Its a train station. There is parking but not too much. There isn't a place to buy tickets so you…read moremust buy them on the train.