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Expressway and Transit Station, Chicago, Illinois
Currently on display
Not a part of the official Smithsonian Collection
This 1958 photo was taken for the Chicago Transit Authority and illustrates the transportation choices available to Chicago commuters. A bus services the median-strip rapid transit line, while automobile traffic passes by on the new Congress Expressway. |
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Photograph. Black-and-white photograph of a highway and transit station.
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Credit: | Courtesy of Chicago Transit Authority |
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Many people in the 1950s believed that improved transportation--primarily adapting the city to the automobile--was the key to mitigating the effects of changing social realities on the nation's cities. Unfortunately, as historian Donald L. Miller points out, "the city's urban transportation corridors became escapeways from the city, not the linkages they had been."
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Chicago Transit Authority
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Chicago, Illinois
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Commuting
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