TRANSIT SYSTEMS IN ILLINOIS
PRESENT AND PAST
ORGANIZED BY METROPOLITAN AREAS AND COUNTIES
A moderately urban state, which is less than sufficiently supportive of public transportation, outside the urbanized areas.
Outside Chicago, many streetcar systems in Illinois were part of Illinois Power & Light Co., a subsidiary of North American Light & Power Co., which also operated various connecting interurban lines. By the end of 1936, all local lines were disposed of, except in Peoria. Many of these transit systems were sold in 1936 to the newly formed National City Lines, in the first major cases of "bustitution", or conversion of streetcar systems to buses.
STATEWIDE TRANSIT LINKS
Links to transit system Web sites and further information on public transportation throughout the state.
Illinois Public Transportation Association
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Chicago Transit & Railfan Web Site