A Chicago Surface Lines streetcar crashes into a fuel truck, killing 33.

* " The Effect of Matter on the Path of Light and the Deviation of Light Waves on the Surface of Matter ", Nuclear Science Institute, Chicago, 1947

* Green Hornet, PCC streetcars used until 1958 by the Chicago Surface Lines and Chicago Transit Authority

The CTA is a municipal corporation that started operations on October 1, 1947 upon the purchase and combination of the transportation assets of the Chicago Rapid Transit Company and the Chicago Surface Lines streetcar system.

* October 1 – The Chicago Transit Authority ( CTA ) begins operating the local transit ( buses and ' L '- Subway rapid transit ) systems in Chicago after acquiring the properties of the former Chicago Surface Lines and the Chicago Rapid Transit Company.

* Chicago Surface Lines 84, the oldest operational trolley bus in the world

Supposedly, the 1. 544 Mbit / s rate was chosen because tests done by AT & T Long Lines in Chicago were conducted underground.

* Ashland ( CTA Green and Pink Lines station ), Chicago

* Delta Air Lines connected Havana with New Orleans and Chicago and to the south with Montego Bay, Jamaica and Caracas.

Intercontinental destinations are offered by Scandinavian Airlines to Chicago and Newark, Air China to Beijing, United Airlines to Newark, Delta Air Lines to New York-JFK, Ethiopian Airlines to Addis Ababa, Qatar Airways to Doha, Thai Airways International to Bangkok and Norwegian Air Shuttle to Dubai.

* Chicago ( CTA Brown and Purple Lines station )

The April 1957 OAG shows nine weekday departures on Western, six on United, six on Pacific Air Lines ( which subsequently merged with Bonanza Airlines and West Coast Airlines to form Air West ), one TWA and one American ( a nonstop to Chicago Midway ).

Turbine-powered flights began in 1959 on Eastern Air Lines ' Lockheed L-188 Electra ; in 1960 National, Eastern and Delta Air Lines began jet flights with the Douglas DC-8 ( Delta was first, with a Chicago nonstop in May or June ).

During its early years the airport had three hangars and an unpaved runway ; passenger and air mail service was provided by American Airlines and Chicago and Southern Air Lines ( acquired by Delta Air Lines in 1953 ).

The line transports over 33, 000 people daily, and operates 24 hours a day, one of only four U. S. rapid transit systems ( the others being the New York City Subway, the Red and Blue Lines of the Chicago ' L ', and the PATH lines ) to do so.

The Eastern United States is home to several airlines, including Delta Air Lines in Atlanta, Georgia, US Airways in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania, AirTran Airways in Orlando, Florida, United Airlines in Chicago, Illinois, Spirit Airlines in Miramar, Florida, and JetBlue Airways in New York, New York.

* December 20 – North Central Airlines Flight 575, a McDonnell Douglas DC-9-31, collides with Delta Air Lines Flight 954, a Convair CV-880, on a runway at O ' Hare International Airport in Chicago, Illinois, killing 10 and injuring 15 of the 45 people on board the DC-9 and injuring two of the 93 people aboard the CV-880.

In 1931 Boeing Air Transport was one of four airlines that merged into United Air Lines and Patterson moved to Chicago to become United's general manager.

* Greatest Highway in the World Gutenberg. org e-book version of The Greatest Highway in the World: Historical, Industrial and Descriptive Information of the Towns, Cities and Country passed through between New York and Chicago via The New York Central Lines ( c. 1921 )

MoPac was a Class I railroad growing from dozens of predecessors and mergers, including the St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railway ( SLIMS ), Texas and Pacific Railway ( TP ), Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad ( C & EI ), St. Louis, Brownsville and Mexico Railway ( SLBM ), Kansas, Oklahoma and Gulf Railway ( KO & G ), Midland Valley Railroad ( MV ), Gulf Coast Lines ( GC ), International-Great Northern Railroad ( IGN ), New Orleans, Texas and Mexico Railway ( NOTM ), Missouri-Illinois Railroad ( MI ), as well as the small Central Branch Railway ( an early predecessor of MP in Kansas and south central Nebraska ), and joint ventures such as the Alton and Southern Railroad ( AS ).

In the 1890s and 1900s, immigration from Poland, the annexation of Jefferson Township into Chicago and the completion of the Logan Square Branch of the Metropolitan Elevated Lines contributed to the rapid increase in Bucktown's population density.

The Owl then moved to Chicago, and acquired the technology to drain human brains of knowledge, and battled the Cat.

According to The Chicago Tribune News Service, State Atty. Gen. Stanley Mosk of California has devised a series of questions which the joiner might well ask about any organization seeking his money and his name: 1.

Wagner Sign Service Inc., Chicago, for example, supplies them in several colors, in heights of 4, 6, 8, 10, and 17 inches.

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* University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration – Chicago, IL ( 1965 )

George B. Armstrong, manager of the Chicago Post Office, is generally credited with being the founder of the concept of en route mail sorting aboard trains which became the Railway Mail Service.

* Carr, Clark E. ( 1909 ) The Railway Mail Service, Its Origin and Development, A. C. McClurg & Co., Chicago.

** United States Postal Service workers in New York City go on strike ; the strike spreads to the state of California and the cities of Akron, Ohio, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Chicago, Boston, and Denver, Colorado ; 210, 000 out of 750, 000 U. S. postal employees walk out.

* November 1 – In the United States, the newly created Weather Bureau ( later renamed the National Weather Service ) makes its first official meteorological forecast: " High winds at Chicago and Milwaukee ... and along the Lakes ".

In January 2011, Moody's Investors Service downgraded to a " negative " outlook from " stable " some of the revenue bonds that the Chicago Department of Aviation had issued to help pay for the $ 15 billion O ' Hare Modernization Program and related capital-improvement projects.

Studio percussion legend Emil Richards acquired a Leedy soprano vibraphone ( 3-octave range of C4-C7 ) in the 1980s from craftsman and restorer Gilberto at Century Mallet Service in Chicago ( run out of the old J. C. Deagan Instruments factory ).

Examples include electoral districts such as Washington's 6th congressional district and Tennessee's 1st congressional district ; school districts such as Granite School District and Los Angeles Unified School District ; economic districts such as the Reedy Creek Improvement District ; metropolitan areas such as the Seattle metropolitan area, and metropolitan districts such as the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago, the Las Vegas-Clark County Library District, the Metropolitan Police Service of Greater London, as well as other local districts like the York Rural Sanitary District, the Delaware River Port Authority, the Nassau County Soil and Water Conservation District, and C-TRAN.

Four different Metra commuter rail lines ( Metra Electric Main Line, Southwest Service, Rock Island District and Heritage Corridor ) connect the parts of the county with the Chicago Loop.

Manhattan has a station on Metra's SouthWest Service, which provides daily rail service to Chicago, Illinois ( at Union Station ).

Service was added to Belgrade, Chicago, Los Angeles, Miami, Bucharest, Singapore, Riyadh, Kuala Lumpur – in cooperation with MAS, Sana ' a, Moscow, Montreal, Delhi, Calcutta and Ankara.

Palos Park has a station on Metra's SouthWest Service, which provides daily rail service between Manhattan, Illinois and Chicago, Illinois ( at Union Station ).

River Grove has a station on Metra's North Central Service and Milwaukee District / West, which provide daily rail service from Chicago, Illinois ( at Union Station to Antioch, Illinois and Elgin, Illinois, respectively.

Worth has a station on Metra's SouthWest Service, which provides daily rail service between Manhattan, Illinois and Chicago, Illinois ( at Union Station ).

* Pace Suburban Bus Service is the public transportation agency for the Chicago area suburbs.

Lake Villa has a station on Metra's North Central Service, which provides daily rail service between Antioch, Illinois and Chicago, Illinois ( at Union Station ).

Fostoria was served by the Three Rivers Amtrak Service which ran between Chicago and New York City until train service there ended in March 2005 which was on CSX's B & O line.

* 1976 Awarded Gold Medal of " Outstanding and Consistent Service to Mankind " by the University of Chicago.

He returned to the United States weeks before Pearl Harbor and in rapid succession commanded Sixth Service Command at Fort Sheridan, Illinois, serving as the ranking military officer in the Chicago area.

Mutual's original participating stations were WOR – Newark, New Jersey, just outside of New York ( owned by the Bamberger Broadcasting Service, a division of R. H. Macy and Company ), WGN – Chicago ( owned by WGN Inc., a subsidiary of the Chicago Tribune ), WXYZ – Detroit ( owned by Kunsky-Trendle Broadcasting ), and WLW – Cincinnati ( owned by the Crosley Radio Company ).