Tracks converge on the downtown area of the city.
View of a typical street car interior. The company only had a short run of two miles of track down Hohman Avenue. Its routes and trackage expanded to cover twenty-five miles and served the cities for which it took its name. In 1903 fifteen cents would get you a one way trip to the Chicago Loop verses the seventy-five cents that the steam railroads would charge for the same distance. But the steam railroad lines quickly lowered their fares in the face of this new competition.