The Lake Street Transfer station was a rapid transit station on the
Chicago "L" that linked its Lake Street Elevated with the Logan Square
branch of its Metropolitan West Side Elevated Railroad from 1913 to
1951. The Lake Street and Metropolitan were both constructed in the
1890s by different companies. The two companies owning the lines, along
with two others, unified their operations in the early 1910s; as part of
the merger, the Lake Street's owner had to close its nearby station on
Wood Street and build a new one to form a transfer with the
Metropolitan. This transfer station had a double-decked construction
(depicted), with the Metropolitan's infrastructure crossing over the
Lake Street. This arrangement continued until the Dearborn Street subway
opened on February 25, 1951, replacing the Logan Square branch in the
area and leading to the station's closure. The site would eventually
serve as the junction of the modern Pink Line to the Green Line.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Street_Transfer_station>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1866:
Miners in Calaveras County, California, discovered a human
skull that was taken to show that humans had existed during the
Pliocene, a thesis that was later disproved.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calaveras_Skull>
1956:
In a speech to the 20th Congress of the Communist Party, Soviet
leader Nikita Khrushchev denounced the personality cult and dictatorship
of his predecessor Joseph Stalin.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Cult_of_Personality_and_Its_Consequences>
1980:
The first prime minister of independent Suriname, Henck Arron,
was deposed in a military coup led by Dési Bouterse.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980_Surinamese_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat>
2020:
Hong Kong–based writer and publisher Gui Minhai, known for
writing about Chinese Communist Party politicians, was sentenced to ten
years' imprisonment for intelligence violations.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gui_Minhai>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
withal:
1. (chiefly archaic)
2. Together with the rest; besides; in addition.
3. All things considered; nevertheless.
4. (archaic or obsolete) Synonym of therewith (“with this, that, or
those”)
5. (archaic) Used at the end of a clause or sentence, after the object:
with.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/withal>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
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The furious year of invincibility. Its main result is that we endured.
We were not defeated. And we will do everything to gain victory this
year!
--Volodymyr Zelenskyy
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Volodymyr_Zelenskyy>