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Greater Grand Crossing, Wallace Best(
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) ...tracks built for the Illinois Central across the rail lines of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern...
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Hammond, IN, Joseph C. Bigott(
Authored Entry
) ...making Hammond the last stop for westbound rail traffic entering Chicago. City officials supported...
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Hegewisch, Erik Gellman(
Authored Entry
) ...community” when he laid out the town along a rail line in 1883. He moved his company about 10 miles...
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Hermosa, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
Authored Entry
) ...and Moen Manufacturing Company, located along the rails. To accommodate factory workers, real-estate...
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Armour Square, David M. Solzman(
Authored Entry
) ...21 blocks long, 4–5 blocks wide) is wedged between rail lines, expressways , and the South Branch of...
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Montclare, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
Authored Entry
) ...after Montclair, New Jersey. In 1873 the rail line failed and was taken over by the Chicago,...
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North Center, Amanda Seligman(
Authored Entry
) ...residential subdivisions near the North Western Rail-way's stops, Ogden sold a large tract to John...
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Avondale, David M. Solzman(
Authored Entry
) ...as a working-class community, since the rail lines and the river served to attract industry....
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The World in Chicago, Sarah S. Marcus(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Gallery)
) ...Environment in a Mercantile Metropolis Networks of Rails World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 Turn-...
...from the South generally followed water and rail routes. Chicago's popularity as a destination...
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Overview, Ann Durkin Keating(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...Ogden saw the important connection between rail and water transportation and ran the terminus of the...
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Business of Chicago, Peter A. Coclanis(
Authored Entry
) ...shows the reach of the company's North American rail service, with an inset depicting the town of...
...of trade, finance, and transport—air as well as rail and highway—how does one evaluate and interpret...
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Pullman Inc., Martha T. Briggs. and Cynthia H. Peters(
Business Dictionary
) ...the Pullman Car Works closed. Most of its rail-car manufacturing assets and its remaining freight...
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Street Railways, David M. Young(
Authored Entry
) ...benches, were pulled by one or two horses along rails laid on the streets. They survived on lightly...
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Toy Manufacturing, Anne Moore(
Authored Entry
) ...same reasons makers of other products did: rail, water , and air transport provided a cheap means to...
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Vacation Spots, Derek Vaillant(
Authored Entry
) ...It took innovations in transportation (steam, rail, auto, and air service), labor policies ( eight-...
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The Loop, Gerald A. Danzer(
Authored Entry
) ...concept was extended to the ring of elevated rail tracks for rapid transit lines connecting downtown...
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Lumber, Theodore J. Karamanski(
Authored Entry
) ...to the dense forests of the Upper Great Lakes , rail and water transportation links made Chicago the...
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Public Transportation, David M. Young(
Authored Entry
) ...omnibuses fitted with steel wheels to run on rails spiked to the planks that covered streets. In...
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Pullman, Janice L. Reiff(
Authored Entry
) ...those traveling on the country's expanding rail system. The second was how to attract and encourage...
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Shopping Districts and Malls, Larry Bennett(
Authored Entry
) ...core. Indeed, in 1897, when the elevated Union rail loop was completed in the downtown area, central...
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