Survey Looks at Metra Rock Island Ridership
The communities that grew to become the Beverly/Morgan Park neighborhood grew up around the construction of the Rock Island commuter trains that connected people living out in the “country” with jobs and shopping in the City of Chicago. Even though we have a lot more transportation options today than people had in the 1870s, area residents and riders […]
Experience Beverly/Morgan Park from Rock Island Line on BAPA Home Tour
There were less than 20 years between 1834 when public domain land sales opened in Chicago and John Blackstone started claiming property in the densely wooded area surrounding the Blue Island Ridge, and 1852 when the Chicago and Rock Island Railroad first started laying a trail of tracks between Chicago and Joliet. Those two events […]