[Illustration: LXXVIII. SUGGESTED LOCATION AND ARRANGEMENT OF THE RAILWAY PASSENGER STATIONS WEST OF THE RIVER. SUBWAY SCHEME: 1. PLAN OF STREET LEVEL. 2. PLAN BELOW STREET LEVEL. COPYRIGHT, 1909, BY COMMERCIAL CLUB OF CHICAGO ] The Twelfth Street location would extend from State Street west to the South Branch of the Chicago River, straightened as shown on the diagram, according to the design for the passenger stations of Chicago which was made and published years ago. Here the purpose is to care for passenger service of every sort, except that of roads coming in on the West Side system. These stations should open on the great Twelfth Street Boulevard, which in front of the stations should be two hundred and fifty feet wide, and east and west of the stations should be one hundred and eighty feet in width. This boulevard would begin to rise at Michigan Avenue, and at the final elevation, which is at the level of the main floor of the stations, should pass over the River on a double-deck bascule bridge. This thoroughfare should come to the present street level at Canal Street, where there is to be a round-point from which a new street should extend to the civic center. As a one hundred and fifty foot wide boulevard, Twelfth Street should continue westward until it joins the West Park Boulevard now existing on the same line, west of Ashland Avenue. The present rights-of-way of the railroads passing under Twelfth Street can go into business use without loss to the corporations owning them. The freight systems and trackage for all of these roads should be underneath the proposed passenger stations and their yards. [Illustration: LXXIX. SUGGESTED LOCATION AND ARRANGEMENT OF THE RAILWAY PASSENGER STATIONS WEST OF THE RIVER. OVERHEAD SCHEME: 1. PLAN AT STREET LEVEL. 2. PLAN ABOVE STREET LEVEL. COPYRIGHT, 1909, BY COMMERCIAL CLUB OF CHICAGO] No more modern or perfect machine could possibly be devised for both passenger and freight in a great city’s heart than that included in the two schemes above shown and explained. Of necessity they should have an ideal street-car connection with all parts of the city. To accomplish this result it is proposed: _First_, to carry the elevated loop along the side and east of the West Side passenger system; along the side and south of the Twelfth Street passenger system; thence over to the Alley L as at present, around by Lake Street and across to the West Side passenger station, forming a complete overhead circuit. _Second_, there should be a surface street-car circuit following the same route, with minor circuits within it. _Third_, there should be an underground street-car system following substantially the same route as first mentioned above, but extending under the main branch of the River and running east and west at or near Michigan Street. Two extensions of this service are shown north of the River, two south of Twelfth Street, and one west, at or near Ashland Avenue.