U.S. At War: Triumphant Day II

Last April, with much hoopla, Chicago's Mayor Ed Kelly gave the voters a preliminary peek at the new Chicago subway. Last week, six months later, the first "official" train went through. The longest-promised (50 years), costliest ($6,938,000 per mile), shortest (4.9 miles) subway in the world was now open for business.

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