04/28/2012 Wilmette Bruce Moffat, Manager of Signage and Wayfinding for the Chicago Transit Authority talks with residents during a tour of a historic train car that was built in 1923 and was in service till 1973 on Chicago's 'L' rapid transit system during a celebration of the 100th anniversary of the 'L' Purple line service to Linden at the Linden Purple line station in Wilmette on Saturday, April 28, 2012. | michael jarecki ~ for Sun-Times Media

04/28/2012 Wilmette Evanston residents Bob and Susan LeBailly (right) sit inside a historic train car that was built in 1923 and was in service till 1973 on Chicago's 'L' rapid transit system during a celebration of the 100th anniversary of the 'L' Purple line service to Linden at the Linden Purple line station in Wilmette on Saturday, April 28, 2012. Bob who grew up in Wilmette, remembers riding in cars similar to this one, when he would commute to the University of Illinois in downtown Chicago in the early seventies. | michael jarecki ~ for Sun-Times Media

04/28/2012 Wilmette Wilmette Mayor Chris Canning speaks to Wilmette residents about the history of the 'L' being built in Wilmette during a celebration of the 100th anniversary of the 'L' Purple line service to Linden at the Linden Purple line station in Wilmette on Saturday, April 28, 2012. | michael jarecki ~ for Sun-Times Media

04/28/2012 Wilmette Residents tour a historic train car that was built in 1923 and was in service till 1973 on Chicago's 'L' rapid transit system during a celebration of the 100th anniversary of the 'L' Purple line service to Linden at the Linden Purple line station in Wilmette on Saturday, April 28, 2012. | michael jarecki ~ for Sun-Times Media

04/28/2012 Wilmette Chicago Transit Authority President Forrest Claypool (left) poses for a photo with Adham Fisher of Leicester, England during a celebration of the 100th anniversary of the 'L' Purple line service to Linden at the Linden Purple line station in Wilmette on Saturday, April 28, 2012. In September 2011 Claypool awarded Fisher an honorary El sign (holding in photo) bearing his last name for his accomplishment of traversing the entire 'L' system in 9 hours, 36 minutes, 33 seconds in March of that year attempting to set a world record. | michael jarecki ~ for Sun-Times Media

04/28/2012 Wilmette Chicago Transit Authority President Forrest Claypool speaks to Wilmette residents during a celebration of the 100th anniversary of the 'L' Purple line service to Linden at the Linden Purple line station in Wilmette on Saturday, April 28, 2012. | michael jarecki ~ for Sun-Times Media

04/28/2012 Wilmette Chicago Transit Authority President Forrest Claypool speaks to Wilmette residents during a celebration of the 100th anniversary of the 'L' Purple line service to Linden at the Linden Purple line station in Wilmette on Saturday, April 28, 2012. | michael jarecki ~ for Sun-Times Media

04/28/2012 Wilmette Residents tour a historic train car that was built in 1923 and was in service till 1973 on Chicago's 'L' rapid transit system during a celebration of the 100th anniversary of the 'L' Purple line service to Linden at the Linden Purple line station in Wilmette on Saturday, April 28, 2012. | michael jarecki ~ for Sun-Times Media