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`The dark girders of the El` were for author Nelson Algren `the city`s rusty heart.`
`So much of his boyhood & of his life was associated with the elevated trains, and even with the various stations and streets for which the stations were named.”
– James T. Farrell`s hero Eddie Ryan in his novel ”Silence of History”
Rock `n` rolling stock.
Chicago`s ”L” must be unique for lending its name to a rock-music group. For its first album, the group now known as Chicago called itself Chicago Transit Authority.
