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CHICAGO HEAVY RAIL
Blue Line, Eisenhower Median |
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From O'Hare and the northwest, the Blue Line enters the subway portal
before the Division station, and then has nine underground stops as
it passes into, through, and out of downtown. It emerges again
into the daylight in the median of the extremely congested Eisenhower
Expy.
Chicago was the first U.S. city to introduce heavy rail
to freeway medians with this line, opened in the late 1950s. That
new Congress Service replaced the nearby Garfield Park "L," and
connected with the Dearborn St. subway downtown. The Chicago, Aurora
& Elgin Interurban, which for decades had used that part of the "L"
to reach the Loop, did not survive to take advantage of what would have
been a much quicker ride.
This photo is from along a very brief three-track segment between the first two Blue
Line outdoor stations, UIC-Halstead and Racine. |
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