Dispatch 9, Chicago Surface Lines: Linking Chicago's Neighborhoods II

This 100-page publication, edited by Richard F. Begley, with George E. Kanary and Walter R. Keevil, includes 20 color pages, 149 photos (28 in color), and two maps (both in color), as well as detailed narratives of 26 streetcar routes and a wonderful article by George Kanary on his recollections of life on Division Street in Wicker Park.

Dispatch 9 covers 26 streetcar lines in the 1945-1958 period. The Dispatch includes a section on Eight Distinctive Lines of Southeast Chicago (including "the Hegewisch line" and South Deering); coverage of Diagonal Lines in a Grid City (including Elston, Archer and Lincoln); as well as information on such routes as Kedzie, Cicero, 18th Street and Chicago Avenue.

Dispatch 9 is available for the regular price of $25.00 plus $12.00 postage to U.S. mailing addresses. CERA members pay only $12.00 plus $12.00 postage to U.S. mailing addresses