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road crossings, and had serious doubts about its ability to reroute its right of way into the new expressway median; despite some speculative plans for alternative train service to downtown
Chicago, and after being disallowed by state regulators to abandon rail service altogether in favor of buses, the CA&E ultimately abandoned service east of Des Plaines on September 20.
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on the main line. This change impacted westbound trains on
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for the "L" – unifying its operations, instituting the same management across the companies, and instituting free transfers between the lines starting in 1913 – but kept the underlying companies intact. This continued until the companies were formally merged into the
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authorized for construction in 1946. Three different agreements were made between the CTA, Chicago, Cook County, and
Illinois between 1951 and 1954 concerning the financing and ownership of the new construction, which soon commenced.
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The "L": The Development of Chicago's Rapid Transit System, 1888–1932
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The station was demolished when it and the branch were replaced by the
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130:Chicago Rapid Transit Company
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1098:Chicago "L" stations
950:"New "L" Road Opens"
425:Chicago City Council
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1434:17th Avenue
1428:25th Avenue
1417:Garden Home
1385:Spring Road
1114:Des Plaines
991:Works cited
978:February 9,
840:, p. 9
823:Moffat 1995
811:Moffat 1995
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657:Moffat 1995
642:1895 Review
625:1895 Review
613:Moffat 1995
517:Replacement
429:a main line
382:Chicago "L"
288:Closed 1952
270:Des Plaines
255:Chicago "L"
108: /
84:Coordinates
47:Chicago "L"
1545:Categories
1522:flag stops
1379:Villa Park
1335:Glen Ellyn
1309:(CA&E)
1263:Marshfield
1235:California
1228:Sacramento
600:References
562:Operations
464:interurban
398:interurban
326:Main Line
293:Marshfield
285:Sacramento
96:87°42′20″W
93:41°52′24″N
74:615 South
1412:Wolf Road
1315:Main Line
1214:St. Louis
1144:Gunderson
535:Skip-stop
265:St. Louis
213:Key dates
160:Platforms
1465:Oak Park
1422:Bellwood
1407:Berkeley
1368:Westmore
1346:Glen Oak
1186:Kilbourn
1138:Oak Park
865:CTA 1967
838:CTA 1967
694:CTA 1979
495:de facto
433:downtown
358:Location
187:Elevated
174:4 tracks
121:Owned by
71:Location
1530:italics
1524:unless
1373:Ardmore
1357:Lombard
1323:Wheaton
1242:Western
1200:Pulaski
1172:Laramie
1165:Central
1151:Lombard
567:hours.
543:Halsted
501:single
415:History
388:of its
319:Wheaton
317:toward
291:toward
268:toward
192:History
139:Line(s)
49:station
45:Former
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1221:Kedzie
1179:Cicero
1158:Austin
1126:Harlem
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443:, and
376:was a
374:Kedzie
205:Closed
197:Opened
171:Tracks
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1256:Ogden
1249:Hoyne
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