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What appears below is a listing of future chapter titles. Beneath each chapter title is a rough sketch of that chapter's content.

Introduction

• What is an Interurban?
• What was the Great Third Rail?

Chapter I: The Beginning (1899-1902)

• The Fox River Valley
• Everett-Moore syndicate and the Aurora and Chicago Ry (1899)
• Pomeroy-Mandelbaum syndicate and the Chicago, Wheaton & Aurora RR (1899)
• Aurora, Wheaton & Chicago Ry (1899)
• Franchise acquisition
• First six cars (1902)

Chapter II: Up and Running (1902-1906)

• Service Begins (1902)
• Service to Batavia (1902)
• Service to Elgin (1903)
• Parlor service begins (1904)
• Service to downtown Chicago (1905)
• Service to Mt. Carmel (1906)

Chapter III: The Third Rail Division (1906-1915)

• The Elgin, Aurora and Southern Traction Company
• The Merger (1906)
• The Chicago, Wheaton & Western and Geneva (1908-09)
• Service to St. Charles (1910)
• Fire destroys general offices (1913)

IV: Hard Times (1915-1922)

• New Aurora Terminal (1915)
• Receivership (1919)
• Foreclosure
• The House Divided and Sold

V: The Conway Era (1922-1926)

• R. M. Stinson and Dr. Thomas Conway Jr.
• The Chicago Aurora & Elgin Railroad
• Locomotives 2001 and 2002
• Infrastructure rehabilitation
• Pullmans (1923)
• “New” Parlor Cars
• Conway Called Away

VI: Insull’s Railroad (1926-1932)

• Insull
• The North Shore, South Shore, and the “Big Three”
• Cincinnatis (1927)
• Car 500 (1927)
• End of Parlor service and 435 & 436 (1929)
• Black Tuesday (1929)
• Insull Steps Down (1932)

VII: The Depression (1932-1941)

• North Shore woods (1936)
• Ex-WB&A cars (1937-8)
• Geneva Branch Abandoned (1937)
• New Aurora Terminal (1939)
• St. Louis cars ordered (1941)

VIII: World War II (1941-1945)

• Pearl Harbor
• St. Louis cars delayed
• War Paint
• Aurora & Elgin and North Shore equipment swaps (1942)

IX: The Postwar Years (1945-1953)

• St. Louis cars arrive (1945)
• The plan for cars 461-468 and ten 2-car articulateds
• Congress Superhighway
• Temporary Garfield Park wooden trestle
• Alderman James B. Bowler (Chi 25th ward)
• Garfield Park street running on Van Buren
• The Last Train from Wells Street

X: Last Stop: Forest Park (1953-1957)

• “Loop in a loop” terminal at Forest Park (1953)
• July 3rd, 1957 and the Evening Commute

XI: Only Freight Trains Run Here (1957-1959)

• The Big Tour (1958)

XII: The Languishing Days (1959-1961)

XIII: Scrapped (1961-1963)

XIV: The Rails are Gone but the Path Remains

• Rails-to-Trails and the Illinois Prairie Path
• Villa Park stations preserved
• Aurora Terminal platform demolished (1991)
• Warrenville station demolished