How cable cars work -- The cable car experience -- Before cable cars : horse power -- Cable cars arrive on the scene -- Cable cars on the South Side -- South Side Car Barn bandits -- Transit Titan, cable car czar -- Cable cars on the North Side -- Cable cars on the West Side -- Chicago's cable car mail service -- Demise of Chicago cable cars -- Cable cars around the country -- Chicago's cable car remnants

Rattle back into a time when Chicago was a city of cable cars. For almost one-quarter of a century, Chicago boasted the largest cable car system the world has ever seen, transporting more than one billion riders. Borzo guides readers through the fascinating story of the rise and fall of this aspects of Chicago's transit history