Chicago's Railway System

By tsvega
  • Period: to

    cable cars replaced horse-drawn cabs

  • First elevated train constructed

    ran from Pershing and State to Congress and Wabash

  • train ran to Jackson Park

    made to serve Columbian Expedition

  • Charles Tyson Yerkes elevated the Loop system

  • State Street Subway (now red line) opened

  • CTA took over the railway system

  • Blue Line opened

  • CTA extended track to O'Hare

  • CTA extended track to Midway

  • Pink Line opened

  • Newest L stop Constructed

    the Washington-Wasbash stop

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