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Expressway traffic jam
Currently on display
Not a part of the official Smithsonian Collection
This photograph was taken for the CTA, and shows a traffic jam on Chicago's Congress Expressway on June 24, 1959, during the evening rush hour. The new expressways were intended to speed traffic in and out of the city. A CTA "L" train cruises past stopped traffic. |
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Photograph. Black-and-white photograph of a traffic jam, broken down car, and rapid transit train.
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Credit: | Courtesy of Chicago Transit Authority |
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"...in order that slum areas may be cleared and our blighted areas rehabilitated, it is absolutely necessary that Chicago have a truly great transportation system." Inaugural address of Chicago's Mayor Kelly, 1943.
"When the American people through their Congress, voted a little while ago for a $26 billion highway program, the most charitable thing to assume...is that they hadn't the faintest notion of what they were doing." Lewis Mumford, Urban Historian, in The Highway and The City, 1958
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Chicago Transit Authority
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Chicago, Illinois
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