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Glenwood, IL, Ian McGiver(
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) ...pass through the village, the nearest Metra rail stop is in neighboring Homewood , and fewer than 1...
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Grayslake, IL, Craig L. Pfannkuche(
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) ...in the area, cheap land prices and easy rail transportation to the city served as a magnet to...
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Harvard, IL, Craig L. Pfannkuche(
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) ...first mayor was N. B. Helm. In 1939, the Kenosha Rail Line was torn out, marking the beginning of...
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Highland Park, IL, Derek Vaillant(
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) ...for residential settlement. Gurnee surmised that rail offered the best link to Chicago, and that...
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Illinois Central Railroad, John P. Hankey(
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) ...sold its Chicago commuter lines to Metropolitan Rail ( Metra ) in 1988. A year later, IC Industries...
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Lake Zurich, IL, Craig L. Pfannkuche(
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) ...residents to support the construction of a rail line linking Lake Zurich to the Chicago & North...
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Leather and Tanning, David Blanke(
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) ...its serviceable water sources, substantial rail facilities, and especially the growth of the...
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Macedonians, Gregory Michaelidis(
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) ...in heavy industry. Many found work in Chicago's rail yards. Others worked in slaughterhouses,...
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Northlake, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
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) ...the community to form “Northlake. ” The Proviso rail yards, built in 1929, ran through the south and...
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Norwood Park, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
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) ...Chicago & North Western Railway, installed a rail line serving the area. For several months there...
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Orland Park, IL, Larry A. McClellan(
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) ...St. Louis & Pacific Railroad completed its rail line through the area in 1879, Humphrey purchased a...
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Connecting Houses to Water Networks, Page 1, Ann Durkin Keating(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...and manufacturers who moved out from Chicago along the rail lines brought with them knowledge of new...
...homes. When commuters moved out to new suburban rail towns, they were confronted with the fact that...
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The Chicago Region and Its Global Models, Sarah S. Marcus(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Gallery)
) ...Environment in a Mercantile Metropolis Networks of Rails World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 Turn-...
...Settlements emerged around stops along these rail lines for farmers, industries, commuters, and...
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Mailing To the World, Sarah S. Marcus(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Gallery)
) ...Environment in a Mercantile Metropolis Networks of Rails World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 Turn-...
...operations in Chicago and relied upon extensive rail and shipping networks to stock local stores...
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Religious Geography, Lowell W. Livezey and Mark Bouman(
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) ...along the waterways, trails, and eventually rail lines that connected Chicago with its hinterland....
...located near the intersections of expressways , rail, and air transportation routes were becoming “...
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Governing the Metropolis, Anthony Orum(
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) ...up in the 1860s and 1870s. With the inception of rail lines fanning outwards from the core city, the...
...such as Ravenswood began developing along the rail lines. Some suburban areas, like Austin and...
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Telegraph, Christopher Thale(
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) ...companies, serving far-flung markets by rail, could coordinate their operations by telegraph. Small-...
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Belmont Cragin, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
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) ...Connecticut to the location. Job opportunities and rail service brought settlers and a new-housing...
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Chicago River, Charles Nilon(
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) ...the old river channel. This project improved rail access to the Loop and was part of the 1909...
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East Chicago, IN, Derek Vaillant(
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) ...Railroad) linked the settlement to Chicago's trunk rail system. East Chicago incorporated as a town...
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