^ Doing so would require operating the Loop 24/7, and I thought that would be a non-starter for cost reasons. That and the fact that it greatly complicates routine maintenance on the Loop, which has a lot of complex and critical signals and switches.
I suppose they could operate the Orange as a shuttle from Roosevelt during the wee hours, but then you need to make two transfers from the Blue Line. If planners want to eliminate the gap in service to Midway, it would honestly be easier to just run a few nonstop shuttle bus runs up the Stevenson, with a few downtown stops along State and Michigan. For everything else there is the N62.
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