It will soon be time for the new CTA (Chicago Transit Authority) Historical Calendar to be released. This is one of my favorite things about the start of the new year. This calendar is free for everyone to download, and features historic photographs of CTA "L" trains, busses, and streetcars every month, with scenes of a long ago Chicago in the background. The photograph above is from a previous year's calendar, and features a street car going up 111th Street in the Beverly neighborhood, just a few miles from the South Side Brainerd neighborhood where I grew up. This photo was taken on June 10th, 1948, and shows what the South Side of Chicago looked like 5 years before I was born and when my sister Susan was a mere 6 years old. Talk about a different era. Be sure to visit the CTA website at https://www.transitchicago.com/historicalcalendar/ to check out the calendars from previous years and to download the 2021 calendar when it arrives.
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