BUT DO WE GET THE ELECTROLINERS BACK? Knowledge Problem sees connections between a merger of power companies in Illinois and the possible repeal of the Public Utilities Holding Company Act, an obscure but significant Depression era law that as a possibly unintended consequence led to the end of the interurban railroads (any guesses how much the taxpayers will spend to restore interurban service to the Old Orchard shopping center) but probably not to the end of the last streetcars.