I had wondered what I would do between the end of the Bears game and the 6 pm Chicago Blackhawks start. However, since we ended up in the United Club at Soldier Field I had my answer. We left the United Club around 4:45 pm and I took the red line from the Roosevelt el stop and got off at the Monroe el stop. I transferred to the #20 Madison Street bus and got off at Ashland Ave. in order to eat dinner at Billy Goat Tavern, located at 1535 W. Madison St. \u2013 a few block walk to the United Center.<\/p>\n
Another transfer option would have been to take the #19 United Center Express bus from downtown Chicago. However, the #20 came first and also does not stop at Ashland Ave.<\/p>\n
Obtaining Tickets
<\/u>After dinner, I made the walk to the United Center which passes most of the ticket scalpers along the way. I offered a scalper $5 (for a $15 face value ticket). He did not accept at first but accepted once he realized no other offers were coming his way.<\/p>\n
The Game
<\/u>The Blackhawks defeated the Calgary Flames 6-1. The Blackhawks have now won 11 straight games when I am in attendance at the United Center. Their last loss in a game I attended was January 11, 2008.<\/p>\n
After the game, I planned to take the #9 Ashland bus back to Addison St. and Waveland Ave. \u2013 about 6 blocks from my house rather than take the #19 bus downtown and transfer to the red line. While I was waiting at the corner of Ashland and Madison St., I remembered I could logon to www.ctabustracker.com<\/a> to determine when the next bus would arrive. It showed 2 minutes and the bus there within a minute or two of that estimate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I had wondered what I would do between the end of the Bears game and the 6 pm Chicago Blackhawks start. However, since we ended up in the United Club at Soldier Field I had my answer. We left the United Club around 4:45 pm and I took the red line from the Roosevelt el stop and got off at the Monroe el stop. I transferred to the #20 Madison Street bus and got off at Ashland Ave. in order to eat dinner at Billy Goat Tavern, located at 1535 …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1684"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1684\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}