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Chicago's West Side Subway
Not a part of the official Smithsonian Collection
This book, Chicago's West Side Subway: First Rail-Transit Facility Constructed Within A Superhighway, was put together by the CTA in June 1958, to document the opening of the Congress Expressway rapid transit line.
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Book. Cover of Chicago's West Side Subway: First Rail-Transit Facility Constructed Within A Superhighway
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Credit: | Courtesy of Chicago Transit Authority |
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As part of the push to modernize rapid transit operations in Chicago in the 1950s, the CTA replaced the Garfield Park branch of the original Metropolitan Elevated Railroad with the Congress Line, down the median strip of the new Congress (later Eisenhower) Expressway.
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User
Chicago Transit Authority
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Chicago, Illinois
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