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East Hazel Crest, IL, Larry A. McClellan(
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) ...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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Before and After, Ann Durkin Keating(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...Water , Sanitary and Ship Canal Santa Fe Railroad Bridge at Lemont, October 18, 1899 Photographers:...
...to be constructed so that existing roads and railroads could traverse the space now occupied by the...
...canal. This view shows the Santa Fe Railroad Bridge before water is released into the channel below...
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River Grove, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
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) ...west of the river, north of Grand near the railroad, were incorporated into River Grove in 1888....
...the majority working for the Milwaukee Railroad yards in Franklin Park . In 1920 Volk Realty...
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Riverside, IL, Joseph L. Arnold(
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) ...In 1863 the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad was built through the area, and five years later a...
...investors decided totake advantage of both the railroad and the uniquely attractive site where it...
...the Burlington line constructed a charming stone railroad station . A major period of residential...
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Bartlett, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
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) ...half of the land to the Chicago & Pacific Railroad (which was succeeded in 1880 by the Chicago,...
...Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad) for a train station and switching yard. Because of his donations the...
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Steger, IL, Larry A. McClellan(
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) ...platted along the Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad and the Vincennes/Hubbard's Trail, was an...
...In 1893, John Valentine Steger opened a piano factory on 20 acres of land alongside the railroad....
...The railroad town also boasted a second factory, a general store, a post office, and a burgeoning...
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Bensenville, IL, Aaron Harwig(
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) ...has evolved from rural farming community to railroad town to mature airport suburb, reflecting the...
...The opening of the Galena & Chicago Union Railroad in 1849 to the south also contributed to growth...
...Bensenville. The Chicago, Milwaukee, & St. Paul Railroad began service between Chicago and Elgin...
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Berkeley, IL, Patricia Krone Rose(
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) ...its southern boundary, and the Union Pacific Railroad (formerly the Chicago & North Western) and the...
...completion of the Chicago, Aurora & Elgin Railroad ( interurban ) gave the area its first passenger...
...bicycling . Berkeley's land purchase from the railroad in the 1960s extended its northern boundary,...
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Berwyn, IL, Elizabeth A. Patterson(
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) ...plank road. The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad ran through the area by 1864, but did not stop...
...of Swedish immigrants settled north of the railroad tracks on a section of Baldwin's former property...
...a Philadelphia suburb listed on a Pennsylvania Railroad timetable. Middle-class Chicagoans were...
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Wheaton, IL, Thomas O. Kay(
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) ...a suburban community. The Galena & Chicago Union Railroad arrived in 1849, on land donated by Warren...
...end of the nineteenth century. In 1902 a second railroad, the Chicago, Aurora & Elgin electric line,...
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Willow Springs, IL, Ronald S. Vasile(
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) ...for use by the Canal Commission and later the railroads served as the major industry in the mid-...
...nineteenth century. The Joliet & Chicago railroad arrived after 1854, and Willow Springs became a...
...of 1883 the Chicago, St. Louis & South-Western Railroad came through the town, the forerunner of...
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