{"id":110287,"date":"2025-08-01T12:53:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T12:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/110287\/"},"modified":"2025-08-01T12:53:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T12:53:15","slug":"strike-suspends-service-on-railroads-street-cars-and-elevated-lines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/110287\/","title":{"rendered":"Strike suspends service on railroads, street cars and elevated lines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Aug. 1, according to the Tribune\u2019s archives.<\/p>\n<p>Is an important event missing from this date? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/2025\/08\/01\/chicago-history-august-1\/mailto:krumore@chicagotribune.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Email us<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Weather records <\/strong>(from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.weather.gov\/wrh\/climate?wfo=lot\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National Weather Service, Chicago<\/a>)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>High temperature: <strong>100 degrees<\/strong> (1988)<\/li>\n<li>Low temperature: <strong>51 degrees<\/strong> (1990)<\/li>\n<li>Precipitation: <strong>2.55 inches<\/strong> (1961)<\/li>\n<li>Snowfall: <strong>Trace<\/strong> (2003)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Tribune editorial cartoonist John T. McCutcheon depicted Chicagoans' confusion and frustration in getting around after more than 20,000 street car and elevated train workers voted to walk off the job on Aug. 1, 1922. (Chicago Tribune)\" width=\"1185\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/CTC-L-CHICAGO-STREET-CAR-STRIKE-1922-01_231812974-e1753985553799.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"25936082\" \/>Tribune editorial cartoonist John T. McCutcheon depicted Chicagoans&#8217; confusion and frustration in getting around after more than 20,000 street car and elevated train workers voted to walk off the job on Aug. 1, 1922. (Chicago Tribune)<\/p>\n<p><strong>1922:<\/strong>\u00a0More than 20,000 employees walked off the job starting at 4 a.m. and joined another 400,000 railroad workers as part of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/enews.chicagotribune.com\/q\/YiBWQrksvmJ0YW1kgBzb0W7OM2HDsd9aW3ggZcOJa2pydW1vcmVAZ21haWwuY29tw4gLVTHtFXPcpNLqoGjtnzBXtStcxA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/enews.chicagotribune.com\/q\/YiBWQrksvmJ0YW1kgBzb0W7OM2HDsd9aW3ggZcOJa2pydW1vcmVAZ21haWwuY29tw4gLVTHtFXPcpNLqoGjtnzBXtStcxA&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1754070000618000&amp;usg=AOvVaw38n70e3qm0X-J5EKmoYbnh\">Great Railroad Strike<\/a>, which\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/enews.chicagotribune.com\/q\/Vn7PtUPgAvf0Y7OVJ7icaiR5ui0f21MlD1bvZcOJa2pydW1vcmVAZ21haWwuY29tw4gIlvM_LYdda7LWpiGKwmfYAyRTzw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/enews.chicagotribune.com\/q\/Vn7PtUPgAvf0Y7OVJ7icaiR5ui0f21MlD1bvZcOJa2pydW1vcmVAZ21haWwuY29tw4gIlvM_LYdda7LWpiGKwmfYAyRTzw&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1754070000618000&amp;usg=AOvVaw06mLMetsS9GK6XAUOQrz2P\">suspended service<\/a>\u00a0on all Chicago street car lines and elevated trains.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"ZjXprpaXRH\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/2022\/07\/31\/vintage-chicago-tribune-in-1922-400000-railroad-workers-walked-off-the-job\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vintage Chicago Tribune: In 1922, 400,000 railroad workers walked off the job<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Want more vintage Chicago?<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to the free\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/membership.chicagotribune.com\/newsletters\/subscribe\/lid\/2d8200fe-eefd-4f1d-bcaa-26a0ce79a461\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-mrf-link=\"https:\/\/membership.chicagotribune.com\/newsletters\/subscribe\/lid\/2d8200fe-eefd-4f1d-bcaa-26a0ce79a461\">Vintage Chicago Tribune<\/a>\u00a0newsletter, join our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/762760217263236\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-mrf-link=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/762760217263236\/\">Chicagoland history Facebook group,<\/a> stay current with<a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/tag\/chicago-history\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Today in Chicago History<\/a> and follow us on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/vintagetribune\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-mrf-link=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/vintagetribune\/\">Instagram<\/a>\u00a0for more from Chicago\u2019s past.<\/p>\n<p>Have an idea for Vintage Chicago Tribune? Share it with Kori Rumore and Marianne Mather at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/2025\/08\/01\/chicago-history-august-1\/mailto:krumore@chicagotribune.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">krumore@chicagotribune.com<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/2025\/08\/01\/chicago-history-august-1\/mailto:mmather@chicagotribune.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mmather@chicagotribune.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Originally Published: August 1, 2025 at 6:45 AM CDT<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Here\u2019s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Aug. 1, according to the Tribune\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":110288,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[70175,960,6387,70177,5386,1818,59493,70176,6807],"class_list":{"0":"post-110287","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-august-1","9":"tag-chicago","10":"tag-chicago-history","11":"tag-elevated-line","12":"tag-il","13":"tag-illinois","14":"tag-railroad","15":"tag-street-car","16":"tag-strike"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114953612045468147","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}