Streetcar

Title	:	Postcard: Illinois Terminal Streetcar near Illinois Central Station, Champaign, IL.
Date	:	Undated. c. 1930
Description	:	A Curteich white border postcard from the late 1920s or early 1930s show a streetcar passing the Illinois Central Station. This is a highly stylized card as is evident from the fact that the artist removed the overhead traction wires which would have been in the original photo from which this card was made. Illinois Terminal/Illinois Light & Power owned the streetcar lines in Champaign/Urbana. They owned the lines until ordered by the federal government to separate in the middle 1930s. Streetcar service ended in Champaign/ Urbana on November 10, 1936 when National City Lines converted all streetcar lines to buses. The card was published by the Champaign & Urbana News Agency of Champaign. The card number is 100241. Special thanks to H. George Friedman for the information on the streetcar service in Champaign. (Skip Gatermann Collection.)