Forgotten Streetcar Tunnels of Chicago - IT'S HISTORY

Today we discover Chicago's forgotten streetcar tunnels, built centuries ago, they run under the Chicago river at 3 points and are sealed off from any access to the public.

Episode Index:
0:00 - Introduction to the Chicago streetcar tunnels
0:45 - The origin and evolution of the Chicago streetcar tunnels
2:12 - Description of the Chicago streetcar tunnels
3:09 - Converting the tunnels from horse and carriage to cablecars.
3:39 - Washington streetcar tunnel overview
5:21 - Lasalle Streetcar tunnel overview
7:02 - Van buren Streetcar tunnel overview
8:44 - The abandonment of Chicago’s streetcar tunnels
9:25 - What is left of the Chicago streetcar tunnels

» Sources / Creative Commons / Fair use / Quotation
"See Chicago and a Century of Progress Exposition: Use Chicago Surface Lines (1933)" by Eric Fischer is licensed with CC BY 2.0. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/

"Car 5568 on Halsted" by Chicago Transit Authority is licensed with CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/

"Green Hornet on Clark" by Chicago Transit Authority is licensed with CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/

"Cable Car Service" by Chicago Transit Authority is licensed with CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/

"69th on the Normal Park 'L'" by Chicago Transit Authority is licensed with CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/

"Clark/Foster in 1934" by Chicago Transit Authority is licensed with CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/

"State Street Subway Construction" by Chicago Transit Authority is licensed with CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/

"Clark/Jackson in early 1930s" by Chicago Transit Authority is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

"Streetcars at Wrigley in 1935" by Chicago Transit Authority is licensed with CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/

"1750_A" by University Archives WUSTL is licensed with CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/

Source:
- https://chicagology.com/prefire/prefire087/
- Lasalle Street Ramp: https://mysteriouschicago.com/the-la-salle-street-tunnel/
- http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/1275.html
- https://www.wbez.org/stories/in-search-of-chicagos-abandoned-cable-car-tunnels/98347334-7601-4fc9-a5d9-22f7c7b3358d
- https://www.lib.uchicago.edu/collex/exhibits/under-your-feet/chicagos-subway-tunnels/
- https://www.chipublib.org/blogs/post/underground-chicago-cta-subways-freight-tunnels-street-car-tunnels/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streetcar_tunnels_in_Chicago
- https://chicagology.com/prefire/prefire087/
- https://www.urbanremainschicago.com/news-and-events/2016/04/05/nineteenth-century-chicago-public-transit-artifact-unearthed/
- https://news.wttw.com/2016/06/01/ask-geoffrey-look-back-chicagos-streetcar-era

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