Canterbury "L" Station, Westchester Illinois, December 1930
Courtesy of Chicago Transit Authority
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Canterbury "L" station, Westchester, Illinois
Not a part of the official Smithsonian Collection
This 1930 view of the Canterbury “L” station in suburban Westchester, Illinois, shows the station house and tracks, with buildings in the distant background. |
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Photograph. Black and white view of a rail station.
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Note: | Westchester, Illinois |
Credit: | Courtesy of Chicago Transit Authority |
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"In the Exploding American city it was not public planning but mass transportation-a creation of the marketplace-that unified urban space." Donald L. Miller, Urban Historian on late 19th and early 20th century cities in City of the Century (1997)
In the late 1800s and early 1900s, private developers often financed the construction of rapid transit rail lines and stations far beyond the city limits, into un-developed suburban and rural areas in an attempt to open new lands to residential growth.
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Chicago Transit Authority
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Westchester, Illinois
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