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

2. 1848:
Railroad
I&M Canal
Telegraph
Plank road

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

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

5. 350 trains in and out of the city every day!
1883:
350 trains in and out of the city every day!

6. 1892: first elevated train

7. 1900: Sanitary and Ship Canal reverses the Chicago River

8. 1905 first Ford automobile Chicago Defender is founded (encourages
African-Americans
to come North)

9. 1909: Burnham Plan
Suggests development of Wacker Dr and Michigan Ave

10. 1913—transfers among el lines begin
1916—Navy Pier
1917—first motor bus

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

12. 1927
Municipal Airport (now Midway) is founded

13. 1928—straightening of the Chicago River
1941—Chicago Sun founded

14. 1942
John Johnson starts the Negro Digest and later Ebony magazine

15. 1943-- First public subway (State Street—today’s Red Line train)
1947--CTA

16. 1949 Orchard Place Airport is renamed O’Hare
Work on the Congress Expressway begins (today’s Eisenhower)

17. 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

18. 1959
Marshall Field IV merges Chicago Daily News and Chicago Sun-Times

19. 1960 Northwest Expressway (now called the Kennedy, 90) opens
First televised presidential debate between Kennedy and Nixon

20. 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!)