Skokie Swift, Yellow Line, CTA Rapid Transit Two-Tone Coffee

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The Skokie Swift high-speed (5 miles in /2 minutes) CTA’s (Chicago Transit Authority) rapid transit service, between Howard Street in Chicago and Dempster Street, Skokie, was inaugurated on April , . The Skokie Swift, (now called the Yellow Line) originally started as the Niles Center Branch of the old Chicago Rapid Transit Company (CRT). The rapid transit service began as part of the Chicago North Shore and Milwaukee Railroad’s high-speed Skokie Valley interurban line on a five-mile section between Howard Terminal and Dempster Street, Niles Center. It was placed in operation on March , . The route included several intermediate stops through Evanston and Skokie (then called Niles Center) at Ridge, Asbury, Dodge, Crawford/ East Prairie, Kostner, Oakton and Main. On March , , the Chicago Transit Authority (who had just bought out the Chicago Rapid Transit Company in ) discontinued service over the Niles Center Branch and replaced it with the # Skokie bus service. The stations were closed and remained abandoned for the next years. The CRT had always owned the trackage between Howard Street and the Skokie heavy repair and inspection shops and thus their successors, the CTA, would inherit it as well. On January , , the Chicago North Shore and Milwaukee Railroad ceased all of its operations, and the remaining miles section of trackage between the Skokie Shops and Dempster Street was purchased by the CTA. The intermediate stations were not reopened. Some of the vacant station houses were used by other businesses, including a convenience store and an electrical supplier, before finally being razed in the s.

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