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There have been many large victims of the Brown Line expansion.
And now there's a Tiny victim. The Tiny Lounge.
The popular neighborhood watering hole is in the way of the Brown Line expansion at the Addison stop. So it must go! But it is looking for another location.
Chicago Public Radio reports.
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I got off at the Addison stop around 4:00 PM yesterday. The excavator was going to work and the Tiny Lounge structure is no more.
Posted by: MC High Life | February 16, 2006 at 07:13 AM
Man, I used to enjoy going to Tiny Lounge when I lived off the Addison stop. It was just a nice, comfortable place that was a complete surprise once you walked inside. Incidentally, on the west side of the tracks is a little blue collar bar - is that place affected by the expansion at all?
Posted by: Ed Knittel | February 16, 2006 at 08:54 AM
Ed, probably not.
Posted by: Tim | February 16, 2006 at 08:57 AM
Yesterday was a rare day I wasn't using the Addison stop. But this morning I walk through the turnstile and what do I see? A big ol' digger scrapping debris and an awfully open-looking alley... clearly sans Tiny Lounge building...
Here's to hoping they find a cozy, but slightly-less-tiny location.
Posted by: Joshua... | February 17, 2006 at 11:09 AM
From today's Trib. Get used to the idea of a much longer commute:
"Some riders on the northern part of the Red Line also are seeing trains slow around the Belmont and Fullerton stops because of track and signal work near those stations, which are used by the Brown, Red and Purple Lines.
Those delays could grow come December, when the number of tracks around Belmont and Fullerton is reduced to three from four so crews can work on the platform and signal tracks. That scenario, which at various times will affect all three lines that together carry nearly 150,000 weekday riders through that corridor, will be in place until mid-2009, reducing the CTA's ability to recover from a service disruption like a derailment.
'If we have a hiccup, it's going to reverberate very quickly,' CTA President Frank Kruesi told the agency's board Wednesday."
Posted by: m | February 17, 2006 at 02:24 PM