After the war, the interurban’s and the automobile’s fortunes reversed. New expressways drained ridership from the North Shore, which fell from almost 28 million annually in 1945 to barely 4 ...

It was the Chicago, North Shore & Milwaukee, an “interurban” railroad that bound the city with the northern suburbs. The North Shore Line was a sister railroad to the Chicago, South Shore ...

Collectively they were known as Chicago’s Big Three electric interurban railways. For those who remember the North Shore, it is hard to accept that it has been 60 years since the last trains pulled ...

Railroad historian and photographer William Middleton described the North Shore Line as a “super interurban.” There have been proposals to revive such interurban travel through Racine and Kenosha.