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1909 Timeline, Carl Smith(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Special Feature)
) ...1909 Timeline...
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Networks of Rails, Sarah S. Marcus(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Gallery)
) ...Networks of Rails...
...Environment in a Mercantile Metropolis Networks of Rails World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 Turn-...
...Chicago's Foreign-Born Population Networks of Rails Within decades of the first locomotive's arrival...
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1909 Timeline, (
Historical Source
) ...1909 Timeline...
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Rail Yards West of Loop, 1930s, Photographer: Mario Scacheri(
Historical Source
) ...Rail Yards West of Loop, 1930s...
...Rail yards west of Loop, 1930s....
Date Created: 1930s,
Date Depicted: 1930s
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Plan of Chicago Promotional Campaign (Rail Lines), n.d., Creator: Chicago Plan Commission(
Historical Source
) ...Plan of Chicago Promotional Campaign (Rail Lines), n.d....
...Chicago's wide variety of local and long distance rail lines might better serve the city, especially...
Date Created: n.d.,
Date Depicted: n.d.
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Map of Pullman Company Rail Network, 1885, Artist: Unknown(
Historical Source
) ...Map of Pullman Company Rail Network, 1885...
Date Created: 1885,
Date Depicted: 1885
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Railroads, John C. Hudson(
Authored Entry
) ...railroads and it is the hub of Amtrak, the intercity rail passenger system. Chicago ranks second (...
...York City) in terms of the volume of commuter rail passengers carried each day. The first railroad...
...1940, of the 90th anniversary of the first rail connection between Aurora and Chicago. Photographer:...
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Railroad Workers, Christopher Thale(
Authored Entry
) ...home to car building and repair shops and rail yards of several roads, was an industrial complex of...
...Locomotive Engineers against the Burlington lines. Chicago, home to several rail unions, was also at...
...the center of other important rail strikes . Chicago rail workers and residents in the communities...
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Land Use, Richard D. Mariner(
Authored Entry
) ...trading routes were transformed into shipping, rail, and highway routes, with settlements providing...
...to the following boom. Together, the water and rail systems that moved supplies and manufactured...
...use was therefore largely oriented to the canal and rail corridors where warehouses, industries, and...
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Railroad Supply Industry, Mark R. Wilson(
Authored Entry
) ...Group, a Chicago-based conglomerate. And ABC Rail Products, Inc. , another firm based in the city,...
...industry were the iron and steel mills, which started to make rails in the late 1850s. By the 1880s,...
...mills were rolling nearly a third of all the rails made in the United States. By the late nineteenth...
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Antioch, IL, Douglas Knox(
Authored Entry
) ...8,788, with 21,879 in Antioch Township. Passenger rail service to Antioch, which had ended in 1965,...
...in 1996 when Metra opened a new suburban passenger rail line, the North Central, with Antioch as its...
...it became a station on the Wisconsin Central rail line in 1885, between Chicago and Stevens Point,...
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Multicentered Chicago, Henry C. Binford(
Authored Entry
) ...of implications for the city's future. When rail-based development came to older cities, even older...
...like. Remaking the fabric of the city to accommodate rail facilities involved either displacing or...
...it was not only the midcontinental hub of the rail system but also had local rail lines surpassed in...
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Mokena, IL, Larry A. McClellan(
Authored Entry
) ...came within the commuting orbit of the expanding metropolis. It was accessible not only by rail and...
...increasing commuter rail service, but also by good roads and, in 1968, by Interstate 80. Mokena's...
...As with so many communities, the placing of a rail line reshaped settlement. By late 1852, the Rock...
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Frankfort, IL, Sarah S. Marcus(
Authored Entry
) ...Despite Frankfort's rail ties to the expanding metropolis of Chicago, the village remained a small...
...along Hickory Creek. With the arrival of several rail lines in the 1850s, settlements focused their...
...ran through the south side of the village, tied Frankfort directly into Chicago's vast rail network....
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South Loop, Dennis McClendon(
Authored Entry
) ...72-acre redevelopment project on former Illinois Central rail yards east of Michigan Avenue south of...
...shipments. The decline of passenger trains left the rail yards vacant, while changes in the printing...
...such a community, on 51 acres of Dearborn Station rail yards, and residents moved into Dearborn Park...
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Iron and Steel, David Bensman and Mark R. Wilson(
Authored Entry
) ...in the Chicago area were mills that produced rails for the railroads . The local pioneer in this...
...shipping business to build Chicago's first rail-rolling mill in 1857. Located on the North Branch of...
...workers. In 1865, this mill experimented with rails made out of Bessemer steel ingots—the first such...
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Metropolitan Growth, Ann Durkin Keating(
Authored Entry
) ...all took advantage of the speed and ease of rail travel. The railroad provided farmers with easy...
...and Lake Villa . Stockyards developed along the rail lines in and around Chicago. While the opening...
...processing industries also located near the rails: in Roselle, locally grown hemp was manufactured...
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Cicero, IL, Betsy Gurlacz(
Authored Entry
) ...the first western suburb connected to the city by rail. In 1857 inhabitants formed the township of...
...percent as a result. Cicero's location on several rail lines influenced the Chicago & North Western...
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Crystal Lake, IL, Craig L. Pfannkuche(
Authored Entry
) ...when the Wisconsin line bridged the Fox River's rails. The consolidated line known as the Chicago &...
...area. In 1863 at the end of the Crystal Lake rail spur, Charles Dole of Chicago's Armour and Dole...
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Mundelein, IL, Craig L. Pfannkuche(
Authored Entry
) ...other area leaders worked with Metra to acquire a rail commuter route, which opened in 1996 as the...
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