A Story Untold 1955 the Year of Doowop

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Clark/lake, 58th, Pulaski, Morgan, Racine, Roosevelt/wabash, 51st, State/lake, Ashland, Randolph/wabash, Garfield, Adams/wabash, 35-Bronzeville-Iit, Ashland/63, Madison/wabash, Clinton, Harlem/lake, Indiana, Central, Austin, Kedzie, King Drive, East 63rd-Cottage Grove, Conservatory-Central Park Drive, Halsted, California, Cicero, Oak Park, Ridgeland, 47th, 43rd, Laramie. Excerpt: item : 35-Bronzeville-IIT: item Station statistics item Address: 16 E. 35th Street Chicago, Illinois 60616 item Coordinates: (3500 S/16 E) item Lines: Green Line item Connections: CTA buses Rock Island (opening 2010) item Structure: Elevated item Platforms: 1 Island platform item Tracks: 2 tracks item Bicycle facilities: Yes item Other information item Opened: June 6, 1892 item Rebuilt: 1965, 1996 item Accessible: item Owned by: Chicago Transit Authority item Formerly: 35th Street, Tech-35th item Traffic item Passengers (2009): 635,282 8.4 % 35-Bronzeville-IIT (formerly Tech-35th ) is a station on the Chicago Transit Authority 's 'L' system , located in the Chicago, Illinois neighborhood of Douglas and serving the Green Line . It is situated at 16 E 35th Street, just east of State Street . It opened on June 6, 1892. Currently, the station serves the historic neighborhood of Bronzeville as well as the Illinois Institute of Technology , and also U.S. Cellular Field , though the Red Line station of Sox-35th is closer. In 2009 a new Metra station will open connecting this station with Sox-35th . In October 1962, the then Tech-35th station caught fire. The northbound platform was destroyed, and service between the adjacent Cermak and Indiana stations was suspended for four days. The station operated using temporary platforms until its renovation in 1965. The station features a farecard-only entrance at 3400...