This vintage pre CTA photo, was copied from an old 1990 CTA Historical Calendar. This is the bus terminal at South Archer and Cicero Avenues near Chicago's Midway Airport, and how it looked like back in 1935. Prior to 1934, this was the turn a round terminal loop and station, for the lightweight interurban trolleys of the Chicago & Joliet Electric Railway. Pre CTA predecessor company Chicago Surface Lines, operated electric streetcars on South Archer Avenue from downtown Chicago to this terminal, until 1948. after the Chicago & Joliet Electric Railway went out of business after bankruptcy in 1934, the Chicago Surface Lines began a gas powered extension bus service, wich operated between the Archer and Cicero terminal, to South Archer and Neva Avenues east of South Harlem Avenue.
Today, this is the CTA Route # 62 Archer /Harlem bus line.
Chicago Midway Airport back then, was named Chicago Municipal Airport. It was later renamed to Midway Airport, after the 1942 World War 2 allied victory battle at Midway Island in the South Pacific Ocean.
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