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Chicago: City on the Move

A Unique Look at Chicago through the Photo Archives of the City’s Public Transportation System

There is a city treasure that has never before come to light. For close to 150 years, photographers have documented Chicago’s public transportation system. They photographed the building of the city’s famous “L” lines and subway tunnels, and pictured the streetcars that glided through city streets. For the first time, these photos in the Chicago Transit Authority archive are available in Chicago: City on the Move. The book shows the city in a new way. It presents a history of the Chicago through mass transportation. But this is not a book of nostalgia. Although the photos are decades old, the subject is very much alive. Take a trip on the Blue Geese, the Green Hornets and the Old Reds. This is your chance to see Chicago as it was and better understand Chicago as it is. This is a book for people who love transportation, who love photography and who love the city on the move.

By Richard Cahan and Michael Williams with Bruce Moffat

Foreword by Stuart Dybek

Hardcover Book: 256 pages
Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 1 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
ISBN-13: 978-0978545031

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WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING ABOUT THE BOOK

“Transportation buffs will swoon at the unique perspectives afforded by the transit companies’ own photographers, who had access to places the average citizen couldn’t go. And those who rode the Turtlebacks and the Green Hornets on their last trips down the tracks will enjoy seeing them once again, if only in pictures.”

Chicago Sun-Times

“Mesmerizing. This is one of the best studies of urban transportation that has ever been published. It’s not just about Chicago transit, but about Chicago itself and about America. Here a long, lost era has been captured. The book is an adventure to look at; I couldn’t put it down. My enthusiasm is unbounded.”

David Plowden, Photographer / Author

“Chicago is a city on the make, according to Nelson Algren, and a city of “big shoulders,” in Carl Sandburg’s vision, but it is the streetcars, the elevated trains, and the railroads that made Chicago a bustling town.

Beginning with the first elevated train, built for the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition, photographers diligently documented the building of the city’s tentacled rail system and the launching of its trains, depositing 200,000 negatives at the Chicago Transportation Authority.

Now Williams and company, who brought us Richard Nickel’s Chicago (2006), have retrieved 250 crisply detailed, masterfully composed, and lushly tonal black-and-white photographs to create a volume as remarkable for its aesthetics as for its transportation and urban history. The pleasures and revelations in picture and text are many, but this gorgeous tribute to the triumph of hands-to-metal engineering and construction reminds us that mass transit is essential for vibrant urban life and that, in a time of decaying infrastructure and the need to reduce automobile emissions, we must rekindle enthusiasm and secure funding for els, subways, and trains.”

Booklist

“Chicago: City on the Move is a follow-up companion volume to Cahan and Williams’ critically acclaimed Richard Nickel’s Chicago: Photographs of a Lost City, released last year.

Chicago: City on the Move is another remarkable collection of previously unpublished photographs that’s both a portrait of the Chicago’s public transit lines and a time capsule of the city’s past.

Snippets of text on the city from works of writers from Theodore Dreiser to Sandra Cisneros accent the book, and the foreword is by writer Stuart Dybek, recently recognized with one of the MacArthur Foundation’s “genius” grants. Chicago: City on the Move is another invaluable collection and an entertaining read.”

Architecture Chicago Plus

“It seems impossible to believe that the places pictured here ever really existed, that a city wasn’t always just a circuit board waiting for television sets to be plugged into it. City on the Move brings that reality with an intensity as vigorous as the Chicago which grows and lives through its amazing and no less artful pages.”

Chris Ware, Artist / Author