TOPIC 3: TRANSPORTATION AND COMMUNICATION 1827—canal authorized 1831—post office 1834—stage coach line 1847— Chicago Tribune

1848: Railroad I&M Canal Telegraph Plank road

More improvements in transportation… 1852—first passenger train from the East 1858—steam engine 1859—horse drawn streetcars

More improvements in communication… 1875— Chicago Daily News 1878—Illinois Bell phone

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

1892: first elevated train

1900: Sanitary and Ship Canal reverses the Chicago River

1905 first Ford automobile Chicago Defender is founded (encourages African-Americans to come North)

1909: Burnham Plan Suggests development of Wacker Dr and Michigan Ave

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

Radio communication… 1921—KYW is Chicago’s first radio station 1922—WMAQ and what is now WGN are founded

1927 Municipal Airport (now Midway) is founded

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

1942 John Johnson starts the Negro Digest and later Ebony magazine

1943-- First public subway (State Street—today’s Red Line train) 1947--CTA

1949 Orchard Place Airport is renamed O’Hare Work on the Congress Expressway begins (today’s Eisenhower)

More trains, planes, and automobiles… 1951—2nd subway (Milwaukee/Dearborn—today’s blue line) 1955—O’Hare opens to commercial traffic; Eisenhower (290) Expressway opens

1959 Marshall Field IV merges Chicago Daily News and Chicago Sun-Times

1960 Northwest Expressway (now called the Kennedy, 90) opens First televised presidential debate between Kennedy and Nixon

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