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	MSN Encarta - Chicago (city, Illinois)
		Chicago (city, Illinois), city and seat of Cook County, located in northeastern Illinois, on the southwestern shore of Lake Michigan, at the mouth of the Chicago River.
		Chicago is the third largest city in the United States and one of the country’s leading industrial, commercial, transportation, and financial centers.
		Chicago is the center of a large metropolitan area spreading across three states, from Kenosha, Wisconsin, in the north to Gary, Indiana, in the southeast.
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	Transportation
		By the 1880s residents of Chicago could rightly claim that their city was the railroad mecca of America.
		Chicago was served by nearly a score of long-distance rail carriers and several switching and terminal companies.
		Chicago continued to strengthen its position as America's premier railroad hub with the opening of the first route to the Pacific in 1869, and with subsequent transcontinental arteries.
	www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org /pages/1269.html (1290 words)

	Chicago City Railway - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Chicago City Railway was a cable car system, designed by William Eppelsheimer and opened in Chicago in 1882.
		As with most cities using cable cars the problem in flat Chicago was not one of grades, but of pure transportation capacity.
		In fact, even as the horse lines were being converted to trolleys, the electrical cars had to be pulled by grip cars through the loop area, due to the lack of trolley wires there.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chicago_City_Railway (264 words)

	Technology, Invention, and Innovation collections
		Chicago City was the first in 1881, and with the addition of the Chicago Passenger Railway (1883) and the West Chicago Street Railroad Company (1887), Chicago had the largest cable railway system in the world.
		In 1905 the city voted that the surface railways should come under municipal ownership but not operation, provided that the companies rehabilitate their systems, and give the city the right to buy the property at a fixed value.
		At this time Chicago had the largest street railway system, the longest one-fare ride, the longest average ride, and the most liberal transfer privileges in the world.
	americanhistory.si.edu /archives/d8212.htm (456 words)

	Cable car (railway) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A cable car or cable railway is a mass transit system using rail cars that are propelled by a continuously moving cable running at a constant speed.
		Cable cars rapidly spread to other cities, although the major attraction for most was the ability to displace horse-drawn (or other animal-drawn) systems rather than the ability to climb hills.
		For example, the Chicago City Railway, also designed by Eppelsheimer, opened in Chicago, Illinois in 1882 and went on to become the largest and most profitable cable car system.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cable_car_on_rails (1613 words)

	CHARLES TYSON YERKES - LoveToKnow Article on CHARLES TYSON YERKES
		When he failed in 1871 he refused to give any preference to the city of Philadelphia for bonds sold on its account, and was convicted of misappropriating city funds, and sentenced to two years and nine months in the penitentiary.
		He established a banking business in Chicago in 1881; in 1886 got control of the Chicago City Railway Company; and within the next twelve years organized a virtual monopoly of the surface and elevated railway service of Chicago.
		Yerkes gave to the university of Chicago the great telescope installed in the Yerkes Observatory at Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, and gathered in his New York residence a remarkable collection of paintings, tapestries and rugs, which were sold at auction in April 1910 for $2,034,450.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Y/YE/YERKES_CHARLES_TYSON.htm (267 words)

	America on the Move \| The 1890s-1920s: Transit Shapes the City
		By 1900 there were at least 17 separate street railway companies, four elevated companies, and a number of interurbans, each with their own stations, stops, equipment, and fares.
		The Chicago and South Side Rapid Transit Railroad Company was the first to successfully obtain right-of-way and permission to build an elevated passenger railway in Chicago.
		One of the consequences of early transit competition in Chicago was the centralization of commerce, industry, and services in the heart of the city’s central business district, known then and now as the “Loop.” The Loop was initially defined in 1882, by the tracks of a cable streetcar turnaround.
	americanhistory.si.edu /onthemove/themes/story_45_1.html (930 words)

	CHICAGO PCC Cars
		Chicago placed a large order of 50’ PCCs to St.Louis Car Co. and Pullman-Standard in 1945 and between 1946 and 1948 600 large cars were delivered to Chicago Transit Authority (290 cars were built by St.Louis and 310 by Pullman-Standard).
		In February 1936 Chicago Surface Lines ordered 83 PCC cars from St.Louis Car Co. Fifty cars purchased in the name of the Chicago Railways Co. were numbered 4002-4051 and 33 cars were purchased by Chicago City Railway Co., numbered 7002-7034.
		Chicago Surface Lines ordered 600-car PCC fleet in 1945-46 and Pullman-Standard built 310 of them between 1946 and 1948 (orders W6749 and W6786) equipped by General Electric and numbered 4062-4371.
	www.sptc.spb.ru /chicagopcc.htm (1006 words)

	Teacher Resources - Collection - Photographs from the Chicago Daily News, 1902-1933
		Chicago, one of the largest and most tumultuous cities of the era, became the setting for two events that drew the attention of the entire nation to the conflicts between capital and labor.
		Chicago continued to be a center of labor activity in the early-twentieth century with the Chicago City Railway strike of 1903, the Stockyard strike of 1904, the Garment Workers strike of 1915, and the Bloomington and Normal Electric Power and Railway strike of 1917, all involving confrontations with police.
		Chicago police arrested a number of demonstrators during this period, including Lucy Parsons, the widow of Albert Parsons, one of the men hanged following the Haymarket Affair of 1886.
	lcweb2.loc.gov /learn/collections/chicago/history.html (768 words)

	Chicago ''L''.org: Historic Figures - Charles Tyson Yerkes
		The City of Philadelphia sent him to jail (officially for embezzlement of $400,000 of the city's money, unofficially for giving preference in his payments to someone other than the city), but he served only seven months of a thirty-three month term.
		The low price of the North Chicago City Railway's stock and its room for expansion and modernization drew Yerkes's eye and he and his business partners, Peter A. Widener and William C. Elkins, chose it as their first acquisition in 1886.
		In January 1894, the city granted the Northwestern a 50-year franchise to built from downtown to Wilson Avenue (later extended to Howard Street), but it included some very stiff financial penalties if the line was not completed to Wilson within three years (and to Howard within ten).
	chicago-l.org /figures/yerkes (3705 words)

	City Clerk of Chicago
		After completion of the work to the satisfaction of the commissioner of transportation, he or she shall certify the comptroller the amount of any surplus remaining from the amount deposited in such case, and surplus shall thereupon be paid over to the proper claimant.
		The grade for sidewalks shall be established by ordinance of the city council, and a record of same, accessible to the public, shall be kept on file in the department of transportation.
		It shall be the duty of the department of transportation and any city officer and any employee having police power, to enforce the provisions of this chapter on sidewalk construction by stopping any work being done in violation of the terms set forth.
	www.chicityclerk.com /legislation/codes/chapter10_20.html (6828 words)

	Lawrence Alumni Resources Regional Information Chicago City Guide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Located along the Western shoreline of Lake Michigan, Chicago is a city that boasts 8 million in population.
		Beneath the shadow of the University of Illinois at Chicago, centered around Taylor Street, is one of the oldest communities in the city.
		CTA.com for the city and Metra.com for suburbs.
	www.lawrence.edu /alumni/regions/chicago_guide.shtml (1455 words)

	The Cable Car Home Page - Cable Car Lines in Chicago
		Charles B Holmes, the president of the Chicago City Railway, had visited San Francisco in 1880 or 1881 to study its cable railways.
		The locomotive was probably from the Colorado and Southern, a subsidiary of the Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy.
		The Illinois Railway Museum in Union, Illinois was able to save a locomotive and a string of ash cars from a tunnel near the Field Museum of Natural History.
	www.cable-car-guy.com /html/ccchi.html (4579 words)

	South Shore: Chicago City Tour
		Chicago’s South Shore/Calumet area is one with an interesting industrial past, and is worth looking into to the Chicago historian.
		The magnificent strength of the steel industry built the region, yet the factories along the South Shore Line are increasingly underutilized; the area has become known as the “Rust Belt,” a symbol of the disintegration of the steel mills along the lake.
		With its railway, highways, ample housing, and proximity to the city, it seems that it is only a matter of time before commuters take advantage the South Shore.
	www.chicagohomefinder.com /citytour/southshore.php (315 words)

	Jazz Age Chicago -- White City
		The outdoor set depicted a life-sized city block and required the use of two trolley cars, five cabs, two automobiles, several fire-fighting wagons, as well as fourteen horses and 250 actors.
		Midget City was a "model miniature village of twenty-five tiny buildings peopled by a host of midgets of world-wide renown." Of highly questionable entertainment value today, White City's Midget City was a popular attraction at the time.
		By surviving White City's physical oddities, including its extraordinarily peculiar walkways, Chicagoans presumably might be better equipped to withstand the psychological trauma of walking through crowded streets in the Loop and other Chicago neighborhoods.
	chicago.urban-history.org /sites/parks/w_city.htm (1881 words)

	CHICAGO TAKES ON MUNICIPAL OWNERSHIP: DEVELOPMENT OF PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Lines, which began supervision of Chicago’s public transportation in 1914; and other Chicago, suburban, and Indiana street railway companies.
		for the City of Chicago and metropolitan area : passed by the City Council of the City of Chicago on May 19, 1930 / City Council of the City of Chicago.
		City of Chicago and its metropolitan area : passed by the City Council of the City of Chicago June 19, 1941 / Committee on Local Transportation of the City Council of the City of Chicago.
	www.chicagohs.org /collections/historyfair/subjects/bibliographies/chicago_takes_on_municipal_ownership.htm (830 words)

	HICKS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Chicago Surface Lines #2846, homebuilt in 1907 as South Chicago City Railway #332, was originally a convertible-type streetcar.
		It was later rebuilt as a standard closed car and ran until the late 1940's, when it was converted to a salt car.
		It was retired in 1958 and sold to the Electric Railway Historical Society, which transferred it to the Illinois Railway Museum in 1973.
	www.davesrailpix.com /hicks/htm/hicks219.htm (64 words)

	City of Chicago Greeter Program
		Beverly/Morgan Park,"Village in the City" is one of the city's most beautiful and historic neighborhoods, it is actually one of the largest urban historic districts in the United States.
		Bronzeville was the center of African-American culture, literature, politics, and entrepreneurship in Chicago and the Midwest.
		The Art Institute of Chicago, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Lyric Opera of Chicago, the Harold Washington Library Center and multiple theaters lend the area a cultural edge.
	www.chicagogreeter.com /Greeterdescript.html (1641 words)

	Jazz Age Chicago -- Forest Park
		The Exposition's most celebrated component were the industrial, commercial, and cultural exhibits of the "White City" in Jackson Park, so-called because of the white-colored, neo-classical buildings in which the exhibits were housed.
		Their new ten-acre park, dubbed Sans Souci after the famous palace of Prussian king Frederick the Great, was bounded by Cottage Grove and Langley Avenues on the east and west, and 60th and 61st Streets on the north and south.
		Many of these changes were made in response to the opening of a rival amusement park, White City, less than a mile to the southwest of Sans Souci in 1905.
	chicago.urban-history.org /sites/parks/sans_sou.htm (765 words)

	C
		Chicago and Kankakee Railway Trolley A/K/A Chicago and Interurban
		Chicago and Northwestern Railroad - 1859 / 1880?
		Chicago Fairchild and Eau Claire Railroad (Fairchild and Northeastern Railroad) - 1882-1897 - Wisconsin
	www.geocities.com /Vienna/Choir/6820/c-4.html (3734 words)

	chapter XXI - A Matter of Tunnels - Online Book Title: The Titan - Author: Theodore Dreiser - Complete book - Read free
		Chicago was growing fast, and these little horse-cars on certain streets were crowded night and morning--fairly bulging with people at the rush-hours.
		The North Chicago City Railway was a corporation which had been organized at the same time as the South Side company, but by a different group of men.
		This was the waning energy of the North Chicago City Railway Company--the lack of foresight on the part of its directors which prevented them from perceiving the proper solution of their difficulties.
	www.readbookonline.net /read/207/6625 (3237 words)

	chapter XXVI - Love and War - Online Book Title: The Titan - Author: Theodore Dreiser - Complete book - Read free
		It was during the earlier phases of his connection with Chicago street-railways that Cowperwood, ardently interesting himself in Stephanie Platow, developed as serious a sex affair as any that had yet held him.
		The city, so long used to the old bridge delays, the straw-strewn, stoveless horse-cars on their jumping rails, was agog to see how fine this new service would be.
		The Chicago Trust Company, which he, Addison, McKenty, and others had organized to manipulate the principal phases of the local bond issues, and of which he was rumored to be in control, was in a flourishing condition.
	www.readbookonline.net /read/207/6630 (3202 words)

	ChicagoBus.org - Chicago CTA History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		On February 1, 1914, all street railway companies in Chicago were unified under one management and became known as the Chicago Surface Lines.
		Motor bus service began in Chicago on August 11, 1927 when the first gasoline buses were placed into service on Diversey Avenue.
		In 1945, the Chicago Surface Lines purchased the “Green Hornet” streetcars, which were called so because of their speed and color.
	www.chicagobus.org /history.php (577 words)

	Hammond Historical Flashback - Hammond, Whiting & East Chicago Electric Railway (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Its routes and trackage expanded to cover twenty-five miles and served the cities for which it took its name.
		The South Chicago City Railway bought the line in 1896 and then equipped it with the familiar green street cars that lead to its nickname the
		With that in mind the glorious era of street cars in the city of Hammond came to an end on Sunday, June 9th 1940, when the line ceased operations.
	www.hammondindiana.com /history/hwecerr.htm (256 words)

	CHICAGO Red Cars
		This batch of 350 cars was built for Chicago Railways by Pullman-Standard Co. in 1910.
		The last group of cars built for the Chicago Surface Lines before the introduction of the PCC was of 100 cars of the Peter Witt design.
		1929 Chicago Transit Authority Peter Witt "Sedan" - in CTA Green/Cream livery
	www.sptc.spb.ru /chicagored.htm (363 words)

	HICKS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Chicago Surface Lines #2843 was built by Jewett in 1906 as South Chicago City Railway #323.
		Used in passenger service on the South Side through World War II, the car was later converted to salt spreading service and was retired in 1958.
		Acquired by the Electric Railway Historical Society, #2843 was transferred to the Illinois Railway Museum in 1973.
	www.davesrailpix.com /hicks/htm/hicks218.htm (59 words)

	Chicago-Times Herald Race, 1895
		The Chicago Times-Herald race was the first motor car race in America.
		Announced in June of 1895, it was not so much a race as it was a contest, an invitation to test the viability of a self-propelled vehicle.
		The cars were placed on a machine built by the Chicago City Railway Company that simulated road conditions.
	www.hfmgv.org /exhibits/showroom/1896d/race.html (437 words)

	Chicago ''L''.org: Historic Figures - Personnel -> Charles Tyson Yerkes
		Thus began a bitter distrust and dislike between Yerkes and the City of Chicago.
		But he would not remain in Chicago for long.
		Politically and socially ostracized for his "rapacity," Yerkes left Chicago in 1900.
	www.chicago-l.org /personnel/figures/yerkes (3720 words)

	Calumet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		It began operation in 1890 and merged with its competitor, the South Chicago City Railway Company, in 1908.
		The dotted red line on your map is a route built as the Pullman Railway by the Pullman Company, which built streetcars as well as its well-known railroad cars.
		The Pullman Railway was a demonstration line for its streetcars as well as a transportation facility.
	home.att.net /~mforder/calumet.htm (196 words)

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