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Fastest scheduled station-to-downtown ride, weekday morning peak: includes transfer waits, excludes the home-to-station walk and pre-boarding wait.

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ACS 2020–2024 estimates, area-weighted to the selected community-area or school-district boundary. Small differences should be treated with caution.

Geography: 77 community-area polygons from the GeoDa Chicago community-area dataset; names and numbering are shown as published.

School data: school-district polygons are the official Census TIGER/Line 2025 elementary and unified-district shapes for the 27 North Shore, 8 Northwest ring and 49 Western suburb districts already profiled, shown alongside the 77 community areas. District shapes mark where school data has been collected; they are not school attendance zones.

Demographics: U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2020–2024 five-year estimates, built from census-tract summary files and area-weighted to each community-area or school-district boundary. Profiles cover all 77 Chicago community areas and all 84 profiled suburban districts. Median household income is interpolated from the income distribution; small differences should be treated with caution.

Transit catchment (computed 2026-09-30): fastest scheduled station-to-downtown journeys for a weekday morning (arrival deadlines 7:45–9:30), routed over the agencies’ official GTFS timetables. “Downtown” is the set of Loop-area rail stations plus the five downtown Metra terminals. The metric counts ride time and transfer waits; it excludes the walk from home to the station and any pre-boarding wait.

Reference: City of Chicago Data Portal — Community Areas · GeoDa Data and Lab · Schedule data: CTA GTFS · Metra GTFS (service day 2026-09-30)

Transit map base: the "Chicago" panel of the RTA Regional Transit Map (September 2025), georeferenced to this page by its own scale bar and station anchors — placement is approximate (a few hundred metres). Wards: City of Chicago ward boundaries (2023–) from the Chicago Data Portal.