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From Classic Trains: “Before the current Chicago Union Station was opened in 1925, trains of the PRR, CB&Q, and Milwaukee Road used a terminal, Monroe Street Union Station, at roughly the same riverfront location. In this 1919 view, CB&Q Lounging Car No. 201 is on the rear of a Burlington train ready to depart south while Milwaukee 4-6-2 No. 6512 pants at the head of a northbound train.” C. Jones Jr. coll.
From The Trolley Dodger blog: “CSL 5249 appears to be heading southbound on Larrabee, just north of Chicago Avenue. To the left, you see the Montgomery Ward complex, which has since been turned into residential. 5249 is signed to go to Vincennes and 88th, which probably makes this a Halsted car.”
The street with tracks veering off at left is Kingsbury. The tracks were part of the Milwaukee Road Kingsbury Branch (C&E South Line)
From The Trolley Dodger blog: “The Loop L in 1900, looking north from Adams and Wabash. In the distance, you can see Madison and Wabash in the distance, and what appears to be a direct entrance into a building —the Louis Sullivan-designed bridge to the Schlesinger and Mayer (later Carson Pirie Scott) department store.”
Men and train engine by The Field Museum Library Via Flickr: Men and train engine, possibly outside Illinois Central railroad terminal or hospital building (verify). Engine I.C.R.R. 134. Museum move series. 1920. Original size and material: 5x7 inch glass negative Digital Identifier: CSGN40523 Part of the Illinois Urban Landscapes Project: www.fieldmuseum.org/urbanlandscapes/
Field Columbian Museum move to new Field Museum
Chicago
1920
Part of the Illinois Urban Landscapes Project: www.fieldmuseum.org/urbanlandscapes/
From The Trolley Dodger blog: “This is, for me, a very interesting photo. It shows construction of the new Halsted Street bridge that will eventually go over the Congress (now Eisenhower) Expressway under construction on May 20, 1951. As you can see, the bridges were built first, before the area around them was excavated. That way, traffic could be diverted around the construction site as it is here. There was a shoo-fly for streetcars and a temporary roadway for other traffic. The view looks north. The nearby L station remained in service until 1958, although two of the four tracks were removed.” (William C. Hoffman Photo, Wien-Criss Archive)
Here is the same view today via Google Maps Street View:
It appears that the building in the extreme upper left of the 1951 photo is still there today as a red brick building. All of the other buildings appear to have been removed and replaced by more modern buildings (which is Greektown).
CSL 1400 Canalport-18th mike charnota collection by mbernero
Chicago Surface Lines streetcar at the intersection of 18th Street, Normal Avenue, and Canalport Avenue.
The building at right was part of the Schoenhofen Brewery complex of buildings in Chicago’s East Pilsen neighborhood.
Chicago
Photo by Mike Charnota (collection of Mel Bernero)
From The Trolley Dodger Blog: “CTA 4060 is on Western at the Logan Square L on June 8, 1956. In the background, you can see the viaduct which is now part of the 606 Trail.”
Chicago
Photo by Bill Hoffman (Wien-Criss Archive)
From The Trolley Dodger Blog: Four photos of CTA streetcars on Madison crossing over the Chicago River. The Civic Opera House is to the left. Circa 1953. (Wien-Criss Archive). At bottom is the same view today.
“CTA 6122 in front of Navy Pier circa 1952. The car is on a Route 38-Indiana run which will take it to 51st and Indiana on the south side.”
Original negative in collection of John Smatlak; photographer unknown.
Three views of the original Peristyle in Grant Park from the Chicago History Museum site.
From The Trolley Dodger blog: Chicago subway construction, circa 1939-40.
Fifty years ago this week, during the Democratic National Convention in August 1968, the General John Logan Monument in Grant Park was surrounded by protesters, with Illinois Central’s Central Station in the background.
From Shorpy.com: “October 1, 1901. ‘Track elevation and stone mixer, Chicago.’ 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Photographic Company.”
The “C&IC Ry” car was from the Chicago and Indiana Coal Railway.
Chicago Surface Lines / CTA streetcar 1640 at work on Adams Street, passing over the Chicago Union Station trainshed.
CTA 3125 and 7180 at Ogden Avenue (Route 66) and Western Avenue
Chicago
April 1951
Photographer unknown (collection of John Smatlak)
Caption: “Streetcar 932 heading west on Irving Park Road at the L on August 14, 1948. Photographer unknown.”
Today this is the Irving Park station on the Brown Line. In the background is the Chicago & North Western bridge, which today carries the Metra Union Pacific North Line.
