The Sanitary and Ship Canal was finally finished in 1900, and waste began to be sent down toward the Mississippi rather than into Lake Michigan. There were some substantial alterations in urban geography during these years. * These rail lines were firmly focused on Chicago's central business district, the Loop, which continued during the first years of the 20th century to acquire an ever more impressive collection of office buildings, department stores, and cultural institutions. There were 34.8 miles of line at the beginning of 1900 and 70.3 at the end of 1914, when Chicago's "L" was apparently the third longest metropolitan railway in the world. * The expansion of the elevated railroad system also continued in the new century. Chicago continued to grow, reaching a population (not counting suburbs) of nearly 2.2 million in 1910, and perhaps 2.4 million in 1914, when (by some measures) it was still the world’s sixth largest city. The maps portray a city where much that was true of Chicago in the 1890s remained the case. Click on the links below to access scans of some of the sheet maps of Chicago from the years between 1900 and the onset of World War I that are held at the University of Chicago Library's Map Collection.
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