Exhibit :
Chicago was a much different place one-hundred years ago. This exhibits, City Planning in the Age of Steam and Streetcars, focuses on transportation issues and how people who used steam trains and streetcars viewed their city in a different way than today's auto-dependent citizens, The exhibit ties-in with over a dozen locomotives, "L" cars, streetcars and train cars inthe museum collection that were in Chicago at the same time Burnham and Bennett drafted the Plan of Chicago.
This program was offered on these dates:
Exhibit : Saturday, August 1, 2009 to Sunday, October 25, 2009
Illinois Railway Museum
Hours:
10:00 -4:00 weekdays, 10:30 - 5:00 weekends
Cost: Included with museum admission
Website: http://www.irm.org
Location:
Illinois Railway Museum
Olson road
Union, IL 60180
815-923-4000
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