Artist Chris Ware, author of Jimmy Corrigan, The Smartest Kid on Earth
"Made with an eye neither to posterity nor to drama, the documentary photographs in this book are an open staring look into Chicago's young childhood. One can see how the arteries which connected the city's neighborhoods combined with the details of life into a seamless totality, from the unique curves of the early steel supports of the "L" to the painted ornament of the streetcars to the accidental folly of women's hats--everything frankly and perfectly seems to belong. No matter how hard I try, I find it impossible to believe that the places pictured here ever really existed, that a city wasn't always just a circuit board waiting for television sets to be plugged into it. "City on the Move" brings that reality to the reader with an intensity as vigorous as the Chicago which grows and lives through its amazing, and no less artful pages."
Photographer David Plowden, author of Vanishing Point
“Mesmerizing. This is one of the best studies of urban transportation that has ever been published. It’s not just about Chicago transit, but about Chicago itself and about America. Here a long, lost era has been captured. The book is an adventure to look at; I couldn’t put it down. My enthusiasm is unbounded."