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

1883: 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 founded (encourages African-Americans African-Americans to come North) 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

 First public subway (State Street—today’s Red Line train)  CTA

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

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