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This section of the Green Line, running east-west along 63rd Street, shows dilapidation at Ellis Avenue, on Feb. 27, 1996. It was still undecided whether this section would be renovated at the time of this photo, with it eventually being torn down all the way to Cottage Grove Avenue.
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This section of the Green Line, running east-west along 63rd Street, shows dilapidation at Ellis Avenue, on Feb. 27, 1996. It was still undecided whether this section would be renovated at the time of this photo, with it eventually being torn down all the way to Cottage Grove Avenue.
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The controversial razing of a nearly mile-long branch of the Green Line along 63rd Street was the most recent of more than half a dozen “L” branch losses since the Chicago Transit Authority’s creation in 1947 out of private transit companies.