PHOTO – CHICAGO – RANDOLPH STREET STATION – PRUDENTIAL BUILDING IN BACKGROUND – CHICAGO SOUTH SHORE AND SOUTH BEND COMMUTER TRAIN WAITING AT PLATFORM – NOTE: THE RAIL LINE IS OFTEN CALLED “THE SOUTH SHORE LINE” AND ITS OPENING DATES BACK TO 1908 – SOME EARLY COMMUTER LINES SERVING CHICAGO WERE QUITE ADVANCED IN BEING ELECTRIFIED (1926 FOR THE ILLINOIS CENTRAL (“THE IC”), SOMETHING STILL NOT TRUE TODAY FOR SOME INTERURBAN COMMUTER SYSTEMS – 1969 – EDITED FROM UNKNOWN PHOTOGRAPHER

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