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Chicago "L"
The Chicago "L" (short for "elevated")〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.transitchicago.com/riding_cta/service_overview.aspx )〕 is the rapid transit system serving the city of Chicago and some of its surrounding suburbs in the U.S. state of Illinois. It is operated by the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA). It is the fourth largest rapid transit system in the United States in terms of total route length (at long〔〔), and the third busiest rail mass transit system in the United States after the New York City Subway and Washington Metro.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.apta.com/resources/statistics/Documents/Ridership/2014-q4-ridership-APTA.pdf )〕 Chicago's "L" provides 24-hour service on some portions of its network, being one of only four rapid transit systems in the United States (the Chicago "L", the New York City Subway, PATH, and Philadelphia's PATCO Speedline) to do so. However, Chicago and New York City are the only cities in the US to offer 24 hour subway/elevated train service throughout their respective city limits every day (PATCO does not service throughout the city limits of Philadelphia). The oldest sections of the Chicago "L" started operations in 1892, making it the third-oldest rapid transit system in the Americas, after Boston's "T" and the elevated lines in New York City. The "L" has been credited with fostering the growth of Chicago's dense city core that is one of the city's distinguishing features. The "L" consists of eight rapid transit lines laid out in a spoke-hub distribution paradigm focusing transit towards the Loop. Although the "L" gained its name because large parts of the system are elevated, portions of the network are also in subway tunnels, at grade level, or open cut.
In 2013, the "L" had an average of 726,459 passenger boardings each weekday, 456,993 each Saturday, and 328,553 each Sunday.〔 In a 2005 poll, ''Chicago Tribune'' readers voted it one of the "seven wonders of Chicago," behind the lakefront and Wrigley Field but ahead of Willis Tower (formerly the Sears Tower), the Water Tower, the University of Chicago, and the Museum of Science and Industry.
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