Edit post

Edit your reply below.

Post Body
Enter your post below.
Rich, I thought that maybe the C&A ran up the east side of the river just west of the CWI tracks, but that's definitely out. On an old map, there's a West Water running sort of North/South just west of the river and stops at Madison Street, about a half block or so east of Canal with a station a half block below.  So this is probably the station 'at the foot of Water Street'.   This same street shows on today's Chicago map as NW Water Street and still stops at Madison. The track continues north, crosses the Northwest track that goes east to the station on Kinsie, then crosses the river and continues north along N. Kingsbury.  This of course, is an old Milwaukee spur that ran along side the Northside "L", but looks like it was an early Milwaukee entrance into Chicago. The map is a Chicago Tribune map but the stations are listed, and it's serving the 5 railroads that used the first Union station when it was built. Art The map url: <A href="http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/su/maps/chi1890/G4104-C6-1893-R363.html">http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/su/maps/chi1890/G4104-C6-1893-R363.html</A>
Tags (Optional)
Tags are keywords that get attached to your post. They are used to categorize your submission and make it easier to search for. To add tags to your post type a tag into the box below and click the "Add Tag" button.
Add Tag