History
On August 12, 1888 the West Chicago Street Railroad Company began cable car service which lasted until August 19, 1906.
The reversing of the Chicago River exposed the tunnel in 1900 and several ships ran aground on it, damaging the roof. A wider, deeper replacement was built under the original. George W. Jackson was the contractor for the rebuilt tunnel. It opened to electric streetcar service on January 29, 1911.
The Washington Street Tunnel was in use until 1953. By 2013 both approaches have been covered.
Read more about this topic: Washington Street Tunnel (Chicago)
Famous quotes containing the word history:
“We said that the history of mankind depicts man; in the same way one can maintain that the history of science is science itself.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)
“Every generation rewrites the past. In easy times history is more or less of an ornamental art, but in times of danger we are driven to the written record by a pressing need to find answers to the riddles of today.... In times of change and danger when there is a quicksand of fear under men’s reasoning, a sense of continuity with generations gone before can stretch like a lifeline across the scary present and get us past that idiot delusion of the exceptional Now that blocks good thinking.”
—John Dos Passos (1896–1970)
“The history is always the same the product is always different and the history interests more than the product. More, that is, more. Yes. But if the product was not different the history which is the same would not be more interesting.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)