Harrison Street “L” Station, Westchester, Illinois, 1926
Courtesy of Chicago Transit Authority
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Harrison Street "L" station, Westchester, Illinois
Not a part of the official Smithsonian Collection
This 1926 image shows the Westchester, Illinois, Harrison Street “L” station house, platform, and tracks surrounded by open space. |
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Photograph. Black and white view of a suburban Chicago "L" station.
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Note: | Westchester, Illinois |
Credit: | Courtesy of Chicago Transit Authority |
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"In the Exploding American city it was not public planning but mass transportation-a creation of the marketplace-that unified urban space." Donald L. Miller, Urban Historian on late 19th and early 20th century cities in City of the Century (1997)
In the late 1800s and early 1900s, private developers often financed the construction of rapid transit rail lines and stations far beyond the city limits, into un-developed suburban and rural areas in an attempt to open new lands to residential growth.
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Chicago Transit Authority
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Westchester, Illinois
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