TOPIC 3: TRANSPORTATION AND COMMUNICATION

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TOPIC 3TRANSPORTATION AND COMMUNICATION

• 1827canal authorized
• 1831post office
• 1834stage coach line
• 1847 Chicago Tribune

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1848

• Railroad
• IM Canal
• Telegraph
• Plank road

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More improvements in transportation

• 1852first passenger train from the East
• 1858steam engine
• 1859horse drawn streetcars

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More improvements in communication

• 1875 Chicago Daily News
• 1878Illinois Bell phone

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• 1883
• 350 trains in and out of the city every day!

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1892 first elevated train
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1900 Sanitary and Ship Canalreverses the
Chicago River
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1905

• first Ford automobile
• Chicago Defender is
• founded (encourages
• African-Americans
• to come North)

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1909 Burnham Plan

• Suggests development of Wacker Dr and Michigan Ave

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• 1913transfers among el lines begin
• 1916Navy Pier
• 1917first motor bus

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Radio communication

• 1921KYW is Chicagos first radio station
• 1922WMAQ and what is now WGN are founded

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1927

• Municipal Airport (now Midway) is founded

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• 1928straightening of the Chicago River
• 1941Chicago Sun founded

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1942

• John Johnson starts the Negro Digest and later
  Ebony magazine

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• 1943-- First public subway (State Streettodays
  Red Line train)
• 1947--CTA

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1949

• Orchard Place Airport is renamed OHare
• Work on the Congress Expressway begins (todays
  Eisenhower)

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More trains, planes, and automobiles

• 19512nd subway (Milwaukee/Dearborntodays blue
  line)
• 1955OHare opens to commercial traffic
  Eisenhower (290) Expressway
• opens

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1959

• Marshall Field IV merges Chicago Daily News and
  Chicago Sun-Times

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1960

• Northwest Expressway (now called the Kennedy, 90)
  opens
• First televised presidential debate between
  Kennedy and Nixon

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And finally

• 1962Dan Ryan Expressway (94)
• 1964Southwest Expressway (Stevenson, 55)
• 1970Logan El extended to Jefferson Pk
• 1983cell phone test site
• 1984Blue Line extended to OHare
• 1990multiple area codes introduced (all of
  Chicago used to be 312!)