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To inspect progress, Mayor Kelly dons a sandhog's helmet and steps into an elevator bound for

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the nether regions below the Windy City streets.

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It's a great undertaking because of difficulties involved, mainly the fact that a large part

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of the tube must go through soft, gooey mud.

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Here are men at work scooping out the clay as they push their monster tube forward inch

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by inch.

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Rock may be harder to drill, but it's easier to handle than the underpinning of the city

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by the lake.

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The new subway means the end of the L that's darkened the loop for many years.

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Soon trains and rush hour crowds will be underground, where they'll move faster with greater comfort,

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and the loop will be free of the structure that darkens it and cripples traffic in the

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streets.

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Here's the way the L trains run now.

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With the trains shunted underground, as this map shows, they'll enter the loop under Dearborn

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Street.

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At the bottom of the loop is the State Street tunnel from the north side.

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One of the model stations is visited by Mayor Kelly, who hails the project.

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It's a great satisfaction to know that the 40-year dream of a subway is about to be realized.

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The people of Chicago will benefit greatly by the expenditure of money both for labor

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and materials, and also in the great saving of time in transportation.