Seems like it could easily be retrofitted for a very gracious Metra connection. They have those wide-open courtyards forming a ready-made path to the Metra station.
It looks like the "ground" of the courtyards is at the 3rd floor, so passengers at a future Metra platform could go up to that level on an escalator and walk through the courtyard and rental-car facility to the ATS platform through a wide, generous space. Not as nice as a quick cross-platform transfer but pretty nice compared to the Midway transfer.
I'm guessing the hangup is an interagency one. Metra probably doesn't want to overload its NCS trains with O'Hare-bound passengers when the Blue Line aready exists. Hopefully we can come back at a future date with signal and siding upgrades that allow for a frequent O'Hare Express service, at which point we could get a nice station.
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