Fifth Avenue was a two-way street with two-tiered buses and there was an El train on Third Avenue.

I hopped on the El train at 7:45, and got to the Wright gift shop in Oak Park by 8:15.

Like de El train come in da winda and hit me in de joint.

Heirens acknowledged that he threw the knife there from an El train, claiming he didn't want his mother to see it.

He had earlier greeted commuters on Chicago's El train, and one of them told Mr. Hart he was "nuts" to get back in the race.

Beth Sycamore, who lives three houses from the Lefkows, said the couple strolled the neighborhood holding hands and took the El train, even with the death threats.

El trains came out of the portal, with a center island platform in an open cut, passed under Pleasant Street, and then rose onto an elevated structure.

Behind right field, the El train rumbles by and a ball roars overhead.

Mr. Perry's office in the downtown Chicago Loop is a 10- to 15-minute drive, or a 20-minute ride on the El train.

Open for only five months, the exposition attracted 27 million visitors, many of whom rode the newly built El train to and from the Loop.