From the 1948 CTA map

[CTA at your service]

[facts about your CTA]

[get there faster with CTA unified service]

[ask any CTA employe]
(did you realize that ``Chicagoland'' was in use in 1948? I didn't!)

I finally added the map itself even though I never figured out how to get it at a resolution that's actually readable without it having to be a 5-megabyte file. For now, here's just the loop (which is pretty illegible, but you already know the street names, right?)

[``Central Business District'']