In spite of the New Deal, in spite of the all-powerful political boss who is their mayor, Chicago's traction system will still be visited on the children of Chicagoans, even to the second and third generations. That was the news that depressed Chicagoans last week.
Their elevated, emanating from the famed "Loop" around Chicago's business center, was built for a city of 1,700,000 (present pop. 3,400,000), is now in receivership. Its last big purchase of new equipment was made just before the U.S. entered World War I. Their streetcars, owned by four...
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