Wilson El, Uptown Chicago 1975

Slide currently available on eBay, auction 110745883066.

Electroliner at Wilson Avenue, Uptown Chicago, 1941

Thanks to Uptown Update for the head's up on this, a North Shore line Electroliner at Wilson Avenue in January 1941 (original Kodachrome transparency photo by Charles E. Keevil from the Walter R. Keevil collection.

Accident at Wilson L, 1956

Currently on eBay there is a seller with images from an accident at the Wilson L station in 1956. Here is one of them (item 190571078950); in the background you can see the Yankee Grill, which I think was the on 1100 block of Wilson. Check out eBay to see the rest of this seller's items.

Lawrence El Stop with Aragon Ballroom in Background

An old advertising postcard for Cash-It-Here currency exchange, sometime in the 1940s, with a rare view of the Elevated station.

Lawrence El Station, 1989

L station, a photo by Jonie Snake on Flickr.

Thanks to Uptown Update for first locating this photographer on Flickr. Shared via the "Share on Blogger" feature.

Lawrence El Station with Newstand

Seriously, how did our current Lawrence El station come to replace this beauty?

The image is currently available for purchase on eBay

Wilson Avenue from the EL, 1955

Another great image with buses, streetcars, and lots of pedestrian traffic. It's currently for sale on eBay

Wilson Express Leaving the Loop, 1918

At one time, Uptown commuters would have taken the Wilson Express to get home. When the Northwestern Elevated Railroad began operation in 1900, Wilson was the north terminal of the line. This image, courtesy of the Library of Congress, was taken at East Adams Street and South Wabash Avenue. You can see the "Wilson Exp" sign in the top left corner.

Read more about the Wilson station(s) at Chicago-L.

Argyle Street Station, Uptown, Chicago 1916 and 2007

Chicago Daily News original caption: View of the new elevated tracks of the Northwestern Elevated Railroad at Argyle Street Station in the Uptown, Chicago, Illinois.

This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's American Memory Collections under the digital ID DN-0065610



Arglye 'L' station on the CTA Red Line in Uptown, Chicago, Illinois, 2007. © Jeremy Atherton, 2007. Permission is granted under the Creative Commons attribution license. Derivative works must use the same licence