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Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 12 Dec 1930, p. 62

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iving1 have teefl reopened, reports the cars touring bureau of the Chicago Motor with j. You drive in, Iock yùut car and leate it 5 Electricity parks it, while you viit the im- portant State Street storesç and smat Boule. vard shops close by. Note the convenient locations of thèse tue Electrnc Parking Garages. Select the one ,icLntst your favorite shops, and enjoy its convenience soon. Electric Parking offers a New Conveiiience for Loop Shoppers ".Electric parking in the new Quincy Garage, or in the Harrison Garage, saves us time, steps, and, clothes," say hundreds of wornen shoppers. "We drive into the wide entrance, lock our cars, and leave them. Electricity parks them for us, un- touched bv human hands. There is no possibility of and double checked and with every ordeal which may be'given thema by the roughest mot orist, successfull'.y completéd., The lôg of this -caravan run,ý which was, made simply to prove that mass production 'of the. new cars. has ac- compfshed' the performance results that moénths of. experimentation. and thousands of miles of road work de- veloped before- production' began, takces the cars over eve ry conceivable type of road, from 150 feet below sea level to, 11,000 feet above 'and runs the ý entire gamfut of temperatures which the niew cars- will be called upon to face. Chevrolet Points Way to Prosperity's Return iConcrete evidence of inmprovernent, ithe automobile industry. was ýdis- closed thisweek with the announce- ment that production of the Chevro- let Motor company in Novenibcr set a new high record for the month.ý Unit output in Nove mber was 47,257ý passenger and commercial cars com- pared with 46,125 in the same month- last year, which was the best pre- vious November. The December schedule is set for 60.000 cars. This announcement is reparded as important because of the fact that c nly a few main .highways were left open from. early spring to late fall. More detours were *:a effect duriiig that period than at any other. time in the. metropolitan area. Many of the substitute- routes -were hopelessly inadiquate, and acute congestion Ire- quently, was encountered on- week-. ends and holidays. "'Those who drive over theý re- opened bhighways probably will be ,jf the opinion that th*e* improvements effected more than balance the, in- convenience during. the sumnmer," the motor club tot.iring bureau stated. "These highways,* for the -Most part, have been wldened to forty feet. While the grade separation programn *as hot achieved in full, there are several new jobs of this sort, and' mainr more are scheduled to be build next year. "A. few two-lane bridges remain on the new fortyfoot stretc'hes. Be- Icause of the vast amount, of, con- structioni this year, it 'Wàs not'pos- sible to rebuild them. They will1 be eliminateil next year, ýalong with some other existing 'bottle-necks' which could not be disposed of this year for one reason'or another." 50 PARKING GARAGES, INC. George Miler Leo MiUer I

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