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Rees & Rucker Map of Chicago and Vicinity, 1849

 

 

 

Rees & Rucker Map of Chicago and Vicinity, 1849

A line on this 1849 map marks the route of the first railroad in Chicago, the Galena & Chicago Union (1848), running west from the depot at Kinzie and Canal Streets, just northwest of Wolf Point at the fork of the Chicago River.