Commuters returning from Chicago on the Illinois Central, Park Forest, Illinois, 1954
Photograph by Bob Sandberg, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
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Commuters on train platform
Currently on display
Not a part of the official Smithsonian Collection
This 1954 photograph shows commuters returning from Chicago to Park Forest, Illinois on the Illinois Central commuter rail line. |
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Physical Description |
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Photograph. Black-and-white photograph of commuters at a rail station.
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Details |
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Credit: | Photograph by Bob Sandberg, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
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History |
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Park Forest was a bridge between the old railroad and the new automobile suburbs. Many early residents took the train to jobs in Chicago. But by 1960 more than half of Park Forest's downtown commuters traveled by car. Park Forest developers tried to convince the Illinois Central to build a spur into the center of the community, but the railroad argued that commuter service wasn't profitable enough.
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Photographer
Sandberg, Bob
Depicted
Park Forest, Illinois
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Commuting
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