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Antioch, IL, Douglas Knox(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
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) ...other area leaders worked with Metra to acquire a rail commuter route, which opened in 1996 as the...
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Dearborn Park, Erik Gellman(
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) ...Street Station served as a major national rail terminus in the Near South Side community area....
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Kane County, Craig L. Pfannkuche(
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) ...90 reaching northwest from Elgin, and commuter rail expansion to Gilberts , Elburn , and Montgomery...
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McHenry County, Craig L. Pfannkuche(
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) ...Crystal Lake), and Cary prospered while non-rail communities such as Franklinville, Coral, Ostend,...
...away from urban settings, found the county's rail transportation perfect for commuting to city jobs....
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Transportation, H. Roger Grant(
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) ...was served by nearly a score of long-distance rail carriers and several switching and terminal...
...System . i2363 The Pioneer powered the first rail trip in the Chicago metropolitan area, between the...
...Central, appeared that same year. But an all-rail link between Chicago and New York City was not...
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Housing, Mail-Order, Mark S. Harmon(
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) ...Chicago-area communities that had large rail sidings during the first half of the twentieth century...
...materials typically required a community with a rail siding where boxcars could sit while waiting to...
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DuPage County, Steph McGrath(
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) ...and African Americans came to work on these rail lines and stayed to live in DuPage County....
...Chicago grew to be the Midwest's great rail center, with links to the east and west helping to...
...to DuPage. Newspapers and mail now arrived by rail, and telegraph lines followed the tracks, making...
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Innovation, Invention, and Chicago Business, Louis P. Cain(
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) ...Chicago's economic development. By the late 1860s, rail connections were available from the Atlantic...
...would become to air transport what Chicago was to rail. National Air Transport's first flight was in...
...routes were established on the basis of the rail lines. Many of Chicago's most vibrant, innovative...
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Summit, IL, John D. Schroeder(
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) ...to the Argo plant, were established. The rail yards transferred meat products from the Chicago...
...running through the valley; its importance as a rail junction increased when the Indiana Harbor Belt...
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Chicagoans Who Rejected the Railroad, Ann Durkin Keating(
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) ...that it should be undertaken by the state—Rail Roads are out of the question with us, except, in...
...in 1848, but it was only a few years before a rail line traversed the same corridor. In the late...
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Chicago Ridge, IL, Larry A. McClellan(
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) ...Calumet Terminal Railway, which also established rail yards in the village. In 1898, the Paul E....
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