I ran across this article while working on some newspaper archives today, and thought those of you familiar with the Chicago area railroads would find it interesting. / Ron
March 25, 1912
Bloomington Evening World
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Railroads which have been figuring on building a new
station at Chicago to take the place of the Polk street
station, are now considering the plan of occupying the
proposed new illinois Central station at Twelfth and
Michigan boulevard. These roads are the Erie, Wabash,
Monon, Sante Fe, and grand Trunk. Another plan also
proposed is that the Rock Island, Nickle Plate, New York
Central, and Chicago & Eastern Illinois, now running out
of the LaSalle street station, also occupy the proposed
I.C. station. This arrangement would give one big
union station for all roads now having stations on the
south side of Chicago. It is certain the roads using
the Polk street station will have to build a new
passenger station before long, and a station in Twelfth
street, between Clark and State, was contemplated
before the proposal for the use of the proposed Illinois
Central station by fourteen railways was advanced.
