By Molly Snyder, Senior Writer, OnMilwaukee.com; December 11, 2019
Seven times a day, the Amtrak Hiawatha departs from Milwaukee to Chicago. The early morning trains pick up riders from the Downtown Intermodal Station at 6:15 or 8:05 a.m. and make a stop at the airport station for more boarders. By the time the railcars reach Illinois, dozens of Wisconsinites – most from the Milwaukee area – have already settled in for their 89-minute commute to work.
“Living in Milwaukee and working in Chicago is the best of both worlds,” says Kera Glass, who lives in Bay View and works for Whole Foods Midwest regional office in Chicago. “I get off the train and have access to this amazing world-class city, and then I get back on the train and get to come back to Milwaukee – the place where I feel most at home.”