The intersection of Loyola Avenue and Sheridan Road, Chicago, 1936. The Loyola station was on the Rapid Transit line; Jackson Park-Howard route (later known as the North-South line), today it's known as the Red Line.
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| 1938 Chicago Rapid Transit route map. |
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| 1978 North-South route map. |
When I was 15 (1975), I was crossing the street from the El station, between the 2nd and 3 viaducts you see, behind the car pictured here in the first photo, going southbound. I was rendered unconscious, and woke up in Edgewater hospital, where I stayed one week for my injuries. 7 years later, underneath those same tracks, going northbound, I got into an auto accident. Also, they filled in the spaces between the viaducts with concrete, so nobody else could share my fate.
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