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An 1886 ordinance allowed the North Chicago Street Railroad to use the LaSalle St. tunnel in exchange for payment, moving a bridge, rehabilitating, and maintaining the tunnel. Cable service began on March 26, 1888 and ended October 21, 1906.
The Chicago Tunnel Company was the builder and operator of a 2 ft (610 mm) narrow-gauge railway freight tunnel network under downtown Chicago, Illinois.This was regulated by the Interstate Commerce Commission as an interurban even though it operated entirely under central Chicago, did not carry passengers, and was entirely underground. [1]
The Chicago Pedway is a network of tunnels, ground-level concourses and bridges in Chicago, Illinois connecting skyscrapers, retail stores, hotels, and train stations throughout the central business district.
The Washington Street Tunnel was the first traffic tunnel under the Chicago River. J.L. Lake was awarded the contract to construct the tunnel in July 1867 and its construction was completed January 1, 1869. This tunnel was 1605 feet long, from Franklin Street west to Clinton Street, and cost $517,000.
Tunnel Hill, Illinois; W. Washington Street Tunnel (Chicago) Winston Tunnel This page was last edited on 24 December 2023, at 10:50 (UTC). ...
State Street Subway, rail transit tunnel, 1943, 4.9 miles (7.9 km) long, CTA 'L' Red Line under State Street in Chicago; Tunnel Hill State Trail tunnel, abandoned rail tunnel, 543-foot-long (166 m) former Cairo and Vincennes Railroad tunnel now part of Tunnel Hill State Trail, used as a hiking and bike rail trail, between Tunnel Hill and Vienna ...
Aerial view of Phase II of the McCook Reservoir under construction in 2023. The Tunnel and Reservoir Plan (abbreviated TARP and more commonly known as the Deep Tunnel Project or the Chicago Deep Tunnel) is a large civil engineering project that aims to reduce flooding in the metropolitan Chicago area, and to reduce the harmful effects of flushing raw sewage into Lake Michigan by diverting ...
The State Street subway project was funded by New Deal programs established by Franklin D. Roosevelt during the Great Depression.In 1937, the city of Chicago successfully applied for a federal grant and loan from the Works Progress Administration to fund the construction of two subway tunnels, the first of which would be built beneath State Street and the second beneath Milwaukee Avenue and ...