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Wilmette's Linden station served as the terminus for Northwestern Elevated trains. Today it is the northern terminus of the CTA's Purple Line.
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Image Credit: CTA Historical Photo Collection [Flickr]
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Image Credit: CTA Historical Photo Collection [Flickr]
Linden station and yard seen in 1960.
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Image Credit: CTA Historical Photo Collection [Flickr]
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Image Credit: CTA Historical Photo Collection [Flickr]
"During construction of the Milwaukee-Dearborn Subway, streetcar tracks were sometimes rerouted around places where digging had to happen in the middle of a street." -CTA
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Image Credit: CTA Historical Photo Collection [Flickr]
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Image Credit: CTA Historical Photo Collection [Flickr]
The area around Grand and Milwaukee seen in Google Earth. The main building seen in the images on the left is circled in red.
Detail around the Grand and Milwaukee area seen almost exactly one year before the "before" picture. The area of interest is circled in red.
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Base image credit: Illinois State Geological Survey
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Base image credit: Illinois State Geological Survey
"This Green Hornet streetcar was in service on the #22 Clark-Wentworth route heading south toward 81st on Clark Street at Halsted."
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Image Credit: CTA Historical Photo Collection [Flickr]
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Image Credit: CTA Historical Photo Collection [Flickr]
Detail around the Clark-Barry-Halsted area from a 1923 Sanborn Map. The photographer in the "before" image is standing where the red circle is. This image was created by splicing together Sanborn Map Volume 9 (1923 Ed.) tiles 66 and 67.
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Map sourced from: University of Illinois (U-C), Digital Collections, Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps.
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Map sourced from: University of Illinois (U-C), Digital Collections, Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps.
The Bluff City Electric Railway's car barn was located at 21st street in North Chicago. In his book "North Shore Line Memories," George Campbell mentions that this car barn was the last surviving structure that was used consecutively by the B.C.E.R, C&ME, and the CNS&M. I've done my best to locate the site at which the building once stood. The sprawl of Great Lakes and the general industrial decay in North Chicago make it hard to locate any old buildings definitively.
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