October 3, 2007
Beyond Your Wildest Dreams ... Or Bloomington-Normal
After that hilarious "oops, we ran out of gas" bit, Megabus is offering something even more spectacular for customers and onlookers — daily service from Chicago to Bloomington-Normal!
Megabus already offers quick, cheap service (like your mom) between 13 cities in the Midwest, and between some in the Southwest. The company makes good on its $1 promise if you book way ahead of time — Thanksgiving is right around the corner! — but fares closer to departure still don't climb too high. Now all you have left to do is to decide if the amazingly cheap fare is worth taking the chance of sitting somewhere on a highway outside of Bloomington-Normal waiting for gas. Or, you know, going to Bloomington-Normal.
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Like, OMG, Downstate is sooooooo icky. I can't wait to go back there for Thanksgiving and show everyone my new Driver's License with my Chicago addy!!
1: With our mayor-for-life and soon-to-escalate taxes and corrupt cops and crumbling mass transit and idiotic bid for the Olympics and our Chicago-bred Gov., I find myself ashamed these days to say I am from Chicago on my frequent travels downstate or to other parts of the country.
I mean, our corruption and crappy cops still make the news in European papers, at least the last few times I was over there. Pathetic.
Megabus isn't so bad, though--as long as the bus does not break down.
"Megabus already offers quick, cheap service (like your mom) between 13 cities in the Midwest."
My moms serves way more that 13 cities . . . what what!? Holla!
I just figured it out: Ms. Dorr is twelve. It all makes so much sense now.
I agree with #4 -- "like your mom?" Grow up.
Could have really used this when I lived and went to school down there.
This is the crappiest Chicagoist entry since Hanna's review of Marie's.
I disagree with guest 7; I often rip on Chicagoist, but this is actually a relatively informative little snippet, and it isn't too long.
Viva Chicagoist! Viva!
There's nothing like someone from Michigan moving to Chicago, becoming oh-so-sophisticated, and then using a condescending tone toward any place smaller than Chicago.
If you think a well-placed your-mom joke is juvenile (and not awesome, which it was), you might be better served reading a "legitimate" newspaper or something.
You and your stank-ass momma.
Snap.
Ah, Normal, where I spent the early-'90s indulging in questionable behavior inside the cozy bubble of early-'20's navel-gazing.
I sure wish they had this cheap bus running daily back then ... maybe I wouldn't have fallen so far out of touch with reality at that time!
B-Town, represent! What what?!
The thing of it is, though, there's already Amtrak service to Bloomington. Not as cheap, but it's there. I have no way of getting to Peoria at all without driving, unless I trudge my way out to the airport and use the Peoria-based charter bus company. Which is pricey.
Ah, Normal, where I spent the early-'90s indulging in questionable behavior inside the cozy bubble of early-'20's navel-gazing.
As opposed to your early-'30s solipsism.
Oh, come on, you left the door wide open on that one.
#13, and Amtrak is WAY better than Megabus. For like $12 each way (as of today, when a friend of mine made the Normal to Chicago trip), you can't complain. I'd MUCH rather take Amtrak for $24 round trip, than Megabus for $15. Now, if you could get one of the mythical $1.50 fares, go for it.
When they launched this service last year between Chicago and Detroit, you could get the cheap fares. As word spread, they became harder and harder to get without booking months in advance, kind of ruining the purpose.
I just want to give a shout, while I can still post anonymously, to the "your mom" comment. Good to see a little unexpected humour every once in a while.
Brava!