Chicago's Lost "L"s

Chicago's Lost
Author: David Sadowski
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2021-07-12
Genre: Transportation
ISBN: 1439672911

Chicago's system of elevated railways, known locally as the "L," has run continuously since 1892 and, like the city, has never stood still. It helped neighborhoods grow, brought their increasingly diverse populations together, and gave the famous Loop its name. But today's system has changed radically over the years. Chicago's Lost "L"s tells the story of former lines such as Garfield Park, Humboldt Park, Kenwood, Stockyards, Normal Park, Westchester, and Niles Center. It was once possible to take high-speed trains on the L directly to Aurora, Elgin, and Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The L started out as four different companies, two starting out using steam engines instead of electricity. Eventually, all four came together via the Union Loop. The L is more than a way of getting around. Its trains are a place where people meet and interact. Some say the best way to experience the city is via the L, with its second-story view. Chicago's Lost "L"s is virtually a "secret history" of Chicago, and this is your ticket.

Building Chicago's Subways

Building Chicago's Subways
Author: David Sadowski
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2018
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1467129380

While the elevated Chicago Loop is justly famous as a symbol of the city, the fascinating history of its subways is less well known. The City of Chicago broke ground on what would become the "Initial System of Subways" during the Great Depression and finished 20 years later. This gigantic construction project, a part of the New Deal, would overcome many obstacles while tunneling through Chicago's soft blue clay, under congested downtown streets, and even beneath the mighty Chicago River. Chicago's first rapid transit subway opened in 1943 after decades of wrangling over routes, financing, and logistics. It grew to encompass the State Street, Dearborn-Milwaukee, and West Side Subways, with the latter modernizing the old Garfield Park "L" into the median of Chicago's first expressway. Take a trip underground and see how Chicago's "I Will" spirit overcame challenges and persevered to help with the successful building of the subways that move millions. Building Chicago's subways was national news and a matter of considerable civic pride--making it a "Second City" no more

Chicago Trolleys

Chicago Trolleys
Author: David Sadowski
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2017
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1467126810

Chicago's extensive transit system first started in 1859, when horsecars ran on rails in city streets. Cable cars and electric streetcars came next. Where new trolley car lines were built, people, businesses, and neighborhoods followed. Chicago quickly became a world-class city. At its peak, Chicago had over 3,000 streetcars and 1,000 miles of track--the largest such system in the world. By the 1930s, there were also streamlined trolleys and trolley buses on rubber tires. Some parts of Chicago's famous "L" system also used trolley wire instead of a third rail. Trolley cars once took people from the Loop to such faraway places as Aurora, Elgin, Milwaukee, and South Bend. A few still run today.

Orders

Orders
Author: Illinois. Public Utilities Commission
Publisher:
Total Pages: 946
Release: 1916
Genre:
ISBN:

The Great American Transit Disaster

The Great American Transit Disaster
Author: Nicholas Dagen Bloom
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 364
Release: 2023-05-03
Genre: History
ISBN: 0226824403

"One of the most enduring American urban myths concerns the death of the Red Car Trolley, an extensive and equitable system in Los Angeles County that some say was weakened and then eradicated by US car manufacturers. Yet as Nicholas Dagen Bloom shows, an array of larger yet less tangible forces together interacted to practically murder public transportation of all kinds in cities nationwide. Most centrally, public transit collapsed because essentially we wanted it to-no conspiracy necessary. Detailing the histories of transportation in Atlanta, Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Detroit, and San Francisco, Bloom seeks to set all of our transit myths to rest for the sake not only of accuracy but in order to enrich our conversations about public transportation funding today"--

AERA.

AERA.
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1268
Release: 1921
Genre: Electric railroads
ISBN:

Opinions and Orders

Opinions and Orders
Author: Illinois. Public Utilities Commission
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1198
Release: 1920
Genre: Public utilities
ISBN:

Investment News

Investment News
Author: Foreign Investment Service Co
Publisher:
Total Pages: 80
Release: 1926
Genre: Business
ISBN: