TAKE THE TRAIN TO THE PLANES. Chicago-area residents now have one-seat service from Union Station, Glenview, or Sturtevant, Wisconsin, to Milwaukee's Mitchell International Airport. The Chicago Tribune's Jon Hilkevitch notes,

The 74-minute train ride from Union Station to the Milwaukee airport (52 minutes from the Glenview station) will likely tempt many airline passengers weary of the travel hassles at congested O'Hare International Airport but who haven't discovered the convenience of Mitchell.

Some days you're hard pressed to get from downtown to the state line in 74 minutes, let alone north to Milwaukee, on the alleged expressways. Now if Amtrak and the state departments of transportation could get their act together on those 65 minute trains ...