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Carol Stream, IL, Jane S. Teague(
Authored Entry
) ...which are served by the Illinois Central Railroad . Tyndale House Publishing Company moved to Carol...
...Western Railway, and the area around the railroad stop became known as Gretna after 1887. German...
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Commodities Markets, Owen K. Gregory(
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) ...after navigation opened on the Great Lakes or by railroad . Commission merchants received a fee for...
...when it was profitable. The Illinois Constitution of 1870 placed railroads and elevators under...
...the control of a Railroad and Warehouse Commission. The commission had the power to regulate rail...
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Apartments, Carroll William Westfall(
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) ...since 1967 atop the former Illinois Central Railroad railhead east of Michigan Avenue and south of...
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Morton Grove, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
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) ...ilies a decade later. In 1872 the Milwaukee Railroad laid a single-track line, setting up a flag...
...They named their community Morton Grove for railroad financier Levi Parsons Morton, later vice...
...contractor who built greenhouses. In 1892 the railroad completed a second track, a year after the...
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Chicago River as Harbor, Ann Durkin Keating(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...Estate ; Near North Side Illinois Central Railroad Slip, 1895 Creator: Western Insurance Survey...
...Society (ICHi-37408) The connection between railroads and the Chicago harbor was a close one....
...The Galena and Chicago Union Railroad, the first into the city, laid tracks to the west bank of the...
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Multicentered Chicago, Henry C. Binford(
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) ...when the national economy was driven by railroads , heavy industry, and European immigration. The...
...Summit . The formation of companies to build railroads expanded this pursuit, attracting attention...
...town, the process of fitting the city around a railroad skeleton began almost immediately and with...
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Ravenswood, Amanda Seligman(
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) ...a deal with the Chicago & North Western Railroad guaranteeing them a certain number of passengers if...
...to a resort. By 1874, the original lone railroad commuter had multiplied to 75. The Ravenswood Land...
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Bloomingdale, IL, Jane S. Teague(
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) ...increased development potential with a railroad connection, two of the area's largest landholders,...
...large tracts of land to the Chicago & Pacific Railroad (Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul) in 1873 in...
...community of Bloomingdale was south of the railroad stop, while a new village named Roselle was...
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Addison, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
Authored Entry
) ...Because the festival attracted so many people, the need for a railroad spur line became evident....
...In 1890 five of Addison's citizens formed the Addison Railroad Company and made an...
...agreement with the Illinois Central Railroad to maintain the line. The train doubled festival...
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Chicago Ridge, IL, Larry A. McClellan(
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) ...the coming of the Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific Railroad in 1882. Later, the Wabash would be crossed...
...and slot machines, located adjacent to the railroad. The Berger Company built housing for its...
...the Berger factory, and in 1902 the Wabash Railroad established a train station. Both Chicago Ridge...
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East Hazel Crest, IL, Larry A. McClellan(
Authored Entry
) ...stop. Mostly east of the Illinois Central Railroad , the village annexed an area west of the IC that...
...Crest was a part of Hazel Crest (east of the railroad line) when it was incorporated in 1911. When...
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Northfield, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
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) ...area from Winnetka some time after 1854, when the railroad lessened the demand for his services as a...
...Valley line of the North Shore interurban railroad, which came through the village. The town was...
...the name Wau-Bun. But when Insull built a railroad station at Willow Road he called it Northfield....
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Palatine, IL, David Buisseret(
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) ...to Plum Grove. In 1853, the Illinois & Wisconsin Railroad was constructed across the township....
...A town emerged around the railroad depot, built just south of the Salt Creek swamp. Some people...
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Calumet River Bridges, Ann Durkin Keating(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...above the Calumet River was for many years a railroad swing bridge with a center pier, which impeded...
...by a vertical lift bridge for the U.S. Steel railroad, owned by U.S. Steel which operated just north...
...river. See also: Calumet River ; Bridges Lift Railroad Bridges, 1991 Photographer: John McCarthy...
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Public Transportation, David M. Young(
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) ...more than intercity stagecoaches put out of business by the newly arrived railroads and relegated to...
...shuttling passengers between railroad stations. Omnibus operators probably filled seats with local...
...that covered streets. In 1855–56 the mainline railroads began hauling local passengers to nearby...
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Furniture, John B. Jentz(
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) ...westward expansion of all kinds of manufacturing. Railroad connections gave Chicago access to lumber...
...yards so well serviced by lake shipping and the railroads. They were also near industries producing...
...steel producers. Meanwhile, the extension of the railroad network and the growth of cities created a...
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River Forest, IL, Aaron Harwig(
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) ...once concentrated near Oak Park and the railroad fanned out north and west. From a population of...
...and opening of the Galena & Chicago Union Railroad in the late 1840s further helped to facilitate...
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Built Environment of the Chicago Region, Robert Bruegmann(
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) ...Ellis Chesbrough in the 1860s, and the city's great railroad system. Despite these impressive works,...
...of the settled area. The advent of the steam railroad permitted suburban settlements well beyond the...
...developed urban fabric. Many of these railroad suburbs were upper-middle-class enclaves. Riverside ,...
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Business of Chicago, Peter A. Coclanis(
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) ...and most fortuitous in the coming age of the railroad , as well as vast deposits of iron ore and...
...Chicago Union in 1850, the city was the greatest railroad center in the world by 1856. In possession...
...development of the West and the American railroad network . As a “gateway” to the West, moreover,...
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Bedford Park, IL, Ronald S. Vasile(
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) ...known as the Clearing Industrial District. In 1888 railroad entrepreneur Alpheus B. Stickney...
...bought land here in order to create a huge railroad switching yard. In 1898 Henry H. Porter...
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