by GRSdave
Dave - The better location description is the Austin neighborhood on Chicago's West Side...Austin extends over
two miles from the Chicago-Oak Park boundary on Austin Boulevard (6000 W.) to Belt RR/Kenton Av. (4600 W.)...
Main N/S roads in between are Cicero Avenue (4800 W.); Laramie Avenue (5200 W.) and Central Avenue (5600 W.)
In the City of Chicago 8 long blocks equal one mile-primary road; 4 long blocks equal 1/2 mile-secondary road...
The rail route is the former C&NW West Line paralleling CTA's Lake Street L (Green Line) to Harlem/Lake (7200 W.)
The ABC7 Chicago news report video mentions Lockwood Avenue (5300 W.) and Lake Street...Right in that area
just west of the Laramie CTA station is the end of the L structure as it goes on the former C&NW embankment
westward towards Oak Park...I was thinking of a yard facility and not a stopped stack train along the UP route
making this a crime of opportunity for some locals to break in and steal merchandise from containers...
There is a separate suburb: The Village of West Chicago - that is on the same rail route about 20 miles west...
I wanted to mention this and correctly describe what the geographical diffrerence was...MACTRAXX