Chicago's fresh Line.

Chicago's fresh Line, the elevated train platform running for 22 miles by the agency of Chicago's South Side to downtown, was the nation's first elevated train. Portions of the line were built more than 100 years ago, and the West Side portion of the line, upon Lake Street, featured the world's first electrically operated rapid transit, impose into operation in 1895. Since that time, thousands of commuter have result to rely on the trains daily. moreover time has taken its toll aesthetically with equal reason the Green Line is being painted for the first time in 40 years.

The refurbishment of the undecayed Line is part of the $300-million, publicly supplyed Urban Mass Transportation Rehabilitation devise for the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA), being implemented subject to the coordination of the city's Department of Transportation, the Northern Illinois Regional Commuter Railroad Authority, Chicago & Northwestern Railway Company and Beltway of Chicago. Thirty-five million