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"So Tuesday morning ... the motoring public is going to see these two left lanes closed on the inbound," the Illinois Department of Transportation's Bureau Chief of Construction Jon Schumacher told NBC 5. "The reversals will be in the inbound configuration permanently 24/7 for the rest of the year." And starting about a week after that the full seven and a half miles will be staged. It's just that's the part of the Kennedy that when it was built, that's the section that was built in this the time that it was programmed to do it."
"Work initially involves setting up the work zone and gradually reducing the 7.5-mile stretch of the inbound Kennedy down to two through lanes," IDOT said in a release. "Crews will put up barriers starting at the Edens junction moving south to Ohio Street. This process is scheduled to take place each night from 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. the following morning and is expected to take approximately one week for the work zone to be in place."
That same year the St. Charles Branch Railroad connected St. Charles with the Galena & Chicago Union (G&CU) here. This formed the first railroad junction in Illinois, and gave West Chicago its first name, Junction.
As part of the effort to attract industry, the community changed its name in 1896 to the Village of West Chicago. Area businessmen, particularly Charles Bolles, reasoned that the new name sounded more cosmopolitan, and would help locate the town for prospective factory owners. It was also at this time that the Village built a water works, thereby decreasing the threat of fire.
World War II brought new economic vitality. The population grew 17% during the 1940s to a 1950 total of 3,973; a whopping 80% during the 1950s to a 1960 figure of 6,839; and another 47% during the 1960s to 10,100 in 1970. Part of this growth reflected annexations of existing developments, but much of it resulted from new building, including the construction of a number of apartment complexes. By 1980 the population reached 12,500.
The West Chicago Prairie was established in 1979 when the City and the Forest Preserve District of DuPage County purchased land on the west side of town, part of which had been the former C&NW Stockyards. The Prairie has over 300 acres with 500 native plant species.
The Kenwood branch was a rapid transit line which was part of the Chicago 'L' system from 1907 to 1957. The branch served the Kenwood neighborhood of Chicago and consisted of six elevated stations. It opened on September 20, 1907 and closed on December 1, 1957.
The predecessor of the Kenwood branch was a freight line the Union Stock Yards and Transit Company built in 1864, which paralleled 40th Street between the Union Stock Yards and the Illinois Central Railroad. The freight line began passenger service in 1882, which continued along the line until 1904. In 1903, the Chicago City Council passed a measure to elevate the 40th Street line as part of an effort to remove grade crossings from Chicago railroads. The Chicago Junction Railway was formed to bear the costs of the elevation, and the task of running passenger trains on the line shifted to the South Side Elevated Railroad. The elevated Kenwood branch ultimately opened on September 20, 1907.[4]
Upon closing the line, the CTA sealed the stations but left the branch itself intact. The Chicago Junction Railway continued to use the branch for freight service, and its freight track remained until the 1960s. The right-of-way along the Kenwood branch was assumed by the Penn Central Railroad, Conrail, and CSX at various points; Penn Central used part of the line to access a warehouse near King Drive until the 1980s. The embankment for the Kenwood branch remained mostly in place; only the steel structures at the termini, the street crossings, and the section between Cottage Grove and Drexel Boulevard have been removed since the branch's closure.[3]
Two events led to population increases for the Englewood and West Englewood neighborhoods. In 1871 the Great Chicago Fire destroyed many neighborhoods to the north. The combination of open spaces for housing and the presence of railroad lines made these neighborhoods ideal for Chicagoans looking for less crowding and moving from the urban center destroyed in the fire. In 1889 the neighborhoods of Englewood and West Englewood became part of the City of Chicago after the town of Lake was annexed by the city.
The precipitous population declines in the decades since 1980 led to widespread abandonment of houses and apartment buildings throughout West Englewood. The abandoned structures attracted squatters and criminals, prompting the city government to begin buying up and demolishing vacant structures on a large scale. This program affected many neighborhoods across Chicago, but Englewood and West Englewood, taken together, had by far the highest number of demolitions in the city.[10] Unlike other areas where many abandoned buildings have been demolished by the city, there has been very little interest in redevelopment in West Englewood. Virtually all of the lots cleared in the area remain vacant and the neighborhood's population has continued to rapidly decline.
Gap junction channels facilitate the intercellular exchange of ions and small molecules. While this process is critical to all multicellular organisms, the proteins that form gap junction channels are not conserved. Vertebrate gap junctions are formed by connexins, while invertebrate gap junctions are formed by innexins. Interestingly, vertebrates and lower chordates contain innexin homologs, the pannexins, which also form channels, but rarely (if ever) make intercellular channels. While the connexin and the innexin/pannexin polypeptides do not share significant sequence similarity, all three of these protein families share a similar membrane topology and some similarities in quaternary structure. This article is part of a Special Issue entitled: Gap Junction Proteins edited by Jean Claude Herve.
Lane closures begin at 10 p.m. Monday. From the Edens junction to Ohio Street, the two left local inbound lanes will be closed until mid-July. Then, from July through December, the remaining right local inbound lanes will be closed, with a rolling closure of the on and off ramps on the inbound Kennedy. During the entire first phase of the project, the reversible express lanes will be locked inbound to alleviate excess traffic buildup during construction. Crews also will be installing new signs and LED lighting.
Clark Junction is seen looking north on July 22, 2007, as a Kimball-bound Brown Line train passes through the interlocking and crosses over main line tracks 1 and 2 to access the Ravenswood branch. The 1976-built Clark Tower on the right was rehabilitated in 2006, with the interior renovated and a new tower panel installed; at the same time, the switches and signals at the junction were also replaced. For a larger view, click here. (Photo by Graham Garfield)
Clark Street junction and station as they looked just prior to the 1913 switch to right-hand running. A Loop-bound Ravenswood train waits at the far left for southbound express and local trains to pass. For a larger view, click here. (Photo from the CTA Collection)
Clark Junction and its associated tower were placed in service onMay 18, 1907 to connect the Ravenswoodbranch to the North Side MainLine. The junction is located near the corner of School Streetand Wilton Avenue, just southwest of the corner of Clark andRoscoe.
The junction joins the two-track Ravenswoodbranch with the four-track NorthSide Main Line, whose two inside tracks are express tracks andwhose outer tracks were local tracks. The branch's southbound trackmerged into the southbound local track, while the branch's northboundtrack diverged from the northbound express track. A series crossoverssouth of the junction, between School Street and Belmont station,allowed trains to then move back and forth between the express andlocal tracks as needed. Although the precise location and arrangementof the crossovers has changed over the years, the junction is stillgenerally laid out in this manner.
Clark Tower was originally located at the north end of thejunction, between the tracks of the mainline and branch. A localstation already existed at ClarkStreet just south of Roscoe when the junction was establishedimmediately south of the station. The tower was placed at the southend of the southbound station platform, an ideal place to oversee thejunction as well as the approach tracks in all three directions. Thetower itself was a two-story affair with a wedge shaped plan andhipped roof. Its architecture was more practical than of anyparticular style, but did feature decorative window frames and sills,and belt course moldings. The interior space was tight. With windowson all sides for maximum visibility, the tower was heated only by asmall iron potbelly stove in the corner of the room. The junction wasequipped with a hand-operated lever form of switch and signalcontrol. This made the interior a dizzying array of levers andswitches, all of which had to be precisely aligned by a vigilanttowerman.
In the mid-1970s, the CTA undertook a project to modernize Clark Junction. The old semaphoresignals were replaced with multi-aspect (colored light) waysidesignals. A new, more spacious interlocking tower was alsoconstructed. Situated on the east side of the mainline tracks, the new tower was five stories high, stretching fromstreet level to a control room cantilevered over the tracks. Accesswas provided to the metal-clad building from both street-level andtrack-level. The tower room on the top floor featured large picturewindows on three sides for visibility and provided more room for thetowerman to work. The new interlocking was controlled by an electricentrance-exit tower panel, which allowed routes to be established bymeans of merely pressing a few buttons as opposed to working thathuge mechanical levers of the old tower. The tower was built at acost of $249,000 as part of aCTA signaling program fundedby the state and federal governments. The new interlocking plant atClark Junction placed was in service on August 22, 1976. The newtower was completed a few months later. At that time, more than 950trains carrying 130,000 people passed through Clark Junction eachweekday.
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