The CTA station at Fullerton and Sheffield, 1950s.
Note the trolley buses on Fullerton.
From The Trolley Dodger blog:
“CTA 128 is on Kedzie at the Garfield Park L on August 2, 1953. A couple of trolley buses are also visible.”
Chicago
August 2, 1953
Photo by Bill Hoffman (Wien-Criss Archive)
Elgin, Joliet, & Eastern locomotives along the scenic Lake Michigan shoreline
Waukegan, Illinois
Photo by Sam Carlson
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CTA Heritage Fleet - 2400s by cta web Via Flickr: Our Heritage Fleet Program is designed to preserve and celebrate our history. The program was created to ensure that our vintage buses, rail cars and other equipment are preserved and maintained so they can be remembered and enjoyed through charters and events held for the public. transitchicago.com/heritagefleet
Source: Flickr / ctaweb
PCCs and buses share State Street in December 1954. The former State-Lake theater is now used by ABC station WLS-TV to tape live performances.
Navy Pier when it was the location if the University of Illinois - Chicago. Note the Chicago Surface Lines streetcar and CTA buses. Chicago Photo by Al Chione
State Street at Lake Street in 1954 by cta web on Flickr.
Caption: “A #36 Broadway streetcar stops to pick up passengers from a boarding island on State Street at Lake in December of 1954. Among the last of the PCC streetcars built for Chicago in 1947-48, many parts from these cars would later be used in a new fleet of ‘L’ cars in the 1950s.”
63rd & Cottage Grove, 1955 by cta web on Flickr.
Under the L at 63rd & Cottage Grove, Chicago, 1955
Clark Street, Chicago Loop
July 1940
Photo by John Vachon
Library of Congress
The Lake Street L station in the background; notice the signs:
Arlington Park Races
FAST Ride the "L" SAFE
NORTH SHORE LINE
The double-decker bus looks like it will barely fit under the L station ...
The man on the left is walking where the east side of the State of Illinois Building is now.
Chicago Union Station
1947
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