Chicago's Streetcars-- Part 1

From the October 25, 2012, Chicago Tribune "For almost 100 years, streetcars traversed Chicago" by Ron Grossman.

"At 6:16 AM on June 21, 1958, Al Carter hopped aboard a green-and-cream Vincennes Avenue trolley car a block from the end of the line, dropped a token into the farebox and asked the conductor to sign his transfer."

Carter was from the city's South Side and was looking to have his immortality in history's footnotes as the "last straphanger to ride a Chicago streetcar."  He had also been the last visitor to enter Chicago's Century of Progress in 1934.

That streetcar rolled into a car barn, closing an era that began in the city back on April 25, 1859, when the first streetcar began running along a single railroad track in the middle of State Street between Madison and 12th streets.

More to Come.  DaCoot