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The tugboat Binghampton passes the Adams Street swing bridge, ca. 1895.

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This is Chicago’s first electric streetcar or “trolley,” which began operation in 1890. Notice the similarity in design to the cable cars. (Chicago Public Library, Special Collections and Preservation Division.)

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Forgotten underground: Incredible pictures of Chicago's abandoned, labyrinth tunnels once used to transport coal, ventilate movie theaters and hide phone cables

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Out of business: Almost a century after construction, the doomed Chicago tunnels had helped facilitate the Chicago Flood of 1992, despite chief engineer George W. Jackson¿s original intention that measures to prevent flooding be maintained

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Chicago: The Illinois Telephone and Telegraph built the first 26 miles of this concrete tunnel by 1905. But the Illinois Tunnel Company which took over, building another 60 miles, went bankrupt in 1909 and construction stopped

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Multi-purpose: In 1912, the Chicago Tunnel Company started using the track to move merchandise, coal and ash before abandoning the unprofitable tunnels in 1959

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Electric cars for hauling mail: The two-foot gauge Illinois Tunnel Company U.S. Mail car waiting at the platform of Grand Central Station in front of a Pere Marquette U.S. Mail car

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Original plans: This City of Chicago subway plan was never built

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Labyrinthine: This sectional view of the Illinois Tunnel Company's abandoned tunnels show tracks diverging at various points

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Opening of Chicago subway for freight traffic: On July 7, 1905, an 11-car train was dispatched from the Erie freight house. These five cars were delivered to the Milwaukee freight house and the elevator in the foreground goes down to the tunnel

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Chicago (/ʃɪˈkɑːɡoʊ/ ⓘ shih-KAH-goh, locally also /ʃɪˈkɔːɡoʊ/ shih-KAW-goh;[7] Miami-Illinois: Shikaakwa; Ojibwe: Zhigaagong) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Illinois and the third-most populous in the United States after New York City and Los Angeles. With a population of 2,746,388 in the 2020 census,[8] it is also the most populous city in the Midwest. As the seat of Cook County, the second-most populous county in the U.S., Chicago is the center of the Chicago metropolitan area.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago

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