Terminal town : an illustrated guide to Chicago's airports, bus depots, train stations, and steamship landings 1939-present
(2014)

Nonfiction

Book

Call Numbers:
388.409773/SCHWIETERMAN,J

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Adult Nonfiction 388.409773/SCHWIETERMAN,J Available

Details

PUBLISHED
Lake Forest, Ill. : Lake Forest College ; Lake Forest Press, 2014
DESCRIPTION

296 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 26 cm

ISBN/ISSN
0982315694, 9780982315699, 9780982315699
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

Introduction -- I. Downtown terminals. Downtown railroad terminals ; Bus terminals ; Electric interurban railway stations ; Steamship landings -- II. Outlying stations. Timesaving connecting points ; Outlying bus and rail terminals -- III. Air transportation. Airports ; Air-taxi shuttle destinations -- IV. Going forward. The future in flux ; Appendix I, Terminals of tomorrow ; Appendix II, Minor endpoints and air-taxi stops ; Appendix III, Measuring intercity service