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Brown Line

Considering it’s one of the shorter el routes, the Brown Line does a better job than any other of covering the city’s wide variety. Ride it around the Loop and it offers a close-up second-story architecture tour. Yet, after it swerves its way through the north side, briefly joining the Red Line, it eventually goes off on its own and drops down as it crosses the North Branch of the river just beyond Western and ends its run quaintly at street level, complete with cars stopped at crossings. It’s the CTA’s best expression of Chicago’s Latin motto, urbs in horto. transitchicago.com. —Ted Cox

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