The Chicago Western Indiana Railroad was a short line running 16 miles from downtown Chicago to Dolton; Illinois; the first suburb south of Chicago; with another line running southeast from Eighty-First Street to the Indiana state line. Built in the 1880s; it was owned by five trunk line railroads that used it as an efficient and inexpensive route into downtown Chicago. Like many 19th-century railroads; the CWI reached its traffic peak in the middle of the 20th century. After World War II; passenger travel and shipping moved to airlines and over-the-road trucking. The need for rail access into downtown Chicago declined; and the CWI ended its service in 1994.
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