Chicago North Shore Street Railway Company

Chicago North Shore Street Railway Company Soundex Code C220

According to J. Johnson's book, A Century of Chicago Streetcars 1858-1958, this line was a predecessor of the Chicago Railways Company (CRC). It was incorporated in 1892 and acquired by the Chicago Consolidated Traction Company (CCT) in 1899 via a lease. CCT was itself a predecessor of CRC. This company was also connected to the Chicago & Evanston Electric Railway Company. Hence, perhaps the connection to Rogers Park, because the Chicago & Evanston had a franchise to run through Rogers Park.

This streetcar line is also mentioned in Robber Baron, the biography of Charles Tyson Yerkes by John Franch, page 173. It was not built as a "Yerkes line", but was one developed by DeLancey Horton Louderbach and financed by Marshall Field and Phillip Armour among others, and ran from Evanston into Chicago.

Yerkes had left Chicago long before North Shore Line predecessor Chicago & Milwaukee Electric made its entry to Chicago. In fact, Yerkes died in 1905.

Per e-mail from Carl Lantz, 9-11-08