Exploring Chicago's Underground Pedway

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  @TotemKommo-o · 2 years ago (edited)

  The revolving door at <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6C9dbducAw&amp;t=425">7:05</a> was locked because that leads into the Lower Level of Macy&apos;s State Street store. If you were filming before 10 AM, that&apos;s why it wasn&apos;t open. We have entrances and exits that lead directly into the Pedway system, so some customers will usually arrive or leave via the Red Line.<br><br>Source: I work there.

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  @jbartlet827 · 2 years ago

  This is SO interesting. I lived in the Chicago area as a kid, and during particularly bad winters, the police would stop traffic and walk folks across the icy street with a rope strung from one curb to the other. We had no idea there was a pedway. Knowing my parents though, they likely wouldn&apos;t have let us use it out of fear of, I don&apos;t know, ruffians? Very interesting video! Thank you!

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  @HeavyRayne · 2 years ago

  Awesome to see someone bringing attention to the pedway (and crucially, how bad the map is). not enough people know about it and the City really should do more to highlight it

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  @ezralandman-feigelson1457 · 2 years ago

  I know the Pedway like the back of my hand. There’s a whole other section you have yet to explore…

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  @babaluigi · 2 years ago

  As a chicagoan who finds the pedway kinda underutilized and mundane, this gave a fresh perspective. I will say, I miss the pedway bar that used to live underneath macy&apos;s/marshall fields called &quot;infields&quot;. Really a bummer that didn&apos;t survive the pandemic.

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  @tortellinifettuccine · 2 years ago (edited)

  pedway feels so vast and complicated, I used it by far the most for train connections and I&apos;m so happy it exists, saves my ass during winter, and it allows riders to only have to pay once a lot of the time, unlike NYC where you constantly get kicked off a line and have to walk to a transfer.

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  @EdGreenberg · 2 years ago

  This could be done as a text-based adventure game. &quot;You are standing in a marble hallway at the intersection of four tunnels.&quot;

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  @danliberty734 · 2 years ago

  You didn’t mention that the lobby of city hall was in the original Blues Brothers. Chicago is replete with movie locations. I love that you’ve branched out from SoCal. Great video. Thanks.

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  @mattinsley1721 · 2 years ago

  My mother was born in Chicago and had deep family ties to the city long before I was born. When I was an adult business owner I discovered the city through my buisness travels and trade show efforts. I fell in love with the city. The history, the people, the whole thing. &nbsp;I love the place.<br>The locals are generally very proud to show you around if you need some guidance.

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  @c1ph3rpunk · 2 years ago

  Used the pedway for many, many years to get around downtown, to work, get lunch and hang out for drinks after work. I’m amazed how many locals don’t know it exists, excellent job showing it off.<br><br>That 2015-2017 period can’t be overstated, for quite some time we called it “the pissway” due to the smell. That smell lasted up to 2018 or so but has (mostly) gone away.<br><br>Want a cool one? Find someone at UC, Hyde Park, that’ll get you a tour of the steam tunnels down there.

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  @MillywiggZ · 2 years ago

  It’s like a backrooms theme park.

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  @robgeach8105 · 2 years ago

  it&apos;s only dependable for m-f &quot;working hours&quot; because the CTA doesn&apos;t own all the doors and private companies lock and unlock their doors based on what works best for them. you can get cute in some sections by dodging weather and walking through parking lot sidewalks to get closer to some locations but you can&apos;t hope to come in on a saturday night red-eye, train to &nbsp;washington station, and pedway to lake station then pedway all the way to the radisson below ground. you&apos;ll hit locked doors everywhere that isn&apos;t a staircase up to street level.

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