[chasil]

Union Station in Chicago would be the obvious place to put Greyhound.

Greyhound will never go there for one reason: it has a bar that sells alcohol.

CTA also does not have a presence in Union Station for the same reason, so no subway/el or local bus presence.

Metra and Amtrak are alcohol-friendly, and I've seen people boarding Metra carrying open containers quite often.

[kasey_junk]

Is there some rule that CTA can’t have a station in a building with a bar? Because most of the loop subway stations skirt that pretty close.

There is a bar in the pedway between the lake redline stop and the Washington blue line stop for instance. And the merchandise mart has several bars and a brown line stop.

I’d guess that the CTA doesn’t have a presence at Union Station because of the way we carved up regional transit, not because of done alcohol policy.

[chasil]

I don't know about CTA, but Greyhound absolutely will not tolerate it.

I can either use Trailways or a two hour drive to Aurora Metra from where I live (I've grown to prefer Aurora). When Trailways stops at the Napierville Metra, the driver commonly says that anyone who enters the bar at the station will not reboard the bus.

Aurora is also absolutely superior when I need to use O'Hare.

[kasey_junk]

That also doesn’t account for the CTA Union Transit center which is a bus terminus across the street from Union Station (and next to an outdoor pavilion with 2 bars).