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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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Lake County, IL, Michael H. Ebner(
Authored Entry
) ...Companies (3,700). The region's first new rail commuter line since 1926 opened in 1996 with eight...
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Manufacturing Climate, Janice L. Reiff(
Rich Map (Essay)
) ...was unquestionably the hub, continued to expand. As rail lines were added in all directions, the...
...six firms employed almost 4,000 workers. The rail network also needed materials to sustain its own...
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Saloons, Perry R. Duis(
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) ...Overestimates of future growth, along with easy rail access to Chicago for St. Louis and Milwaukee...
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Croatians, Amanda Seligman(
Authored Entry
) ...the building trades , and on the surface rails. Some left the city in the summers for construction...
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Lake County, IN, Joseph C. Bigott(
Authored Entry
) ...did not develop an urban center. Crown Point lacked a rail outlet until 1865. The railroads spurred...
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Special Districts, Donald F. Stetzer(
Authored Entry
) ...Chicago Transit Authority , the Metra Commuter Rail Division, and the Pace Suburban Bus Division)...
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Commodities Markets, Owen K. Gregory(
Authored Entry
) ...The commission had the power to regulate rail and storage rates and to inspect public grain...
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People and the Port, Theodore Karamanski(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Essay)
) ...board feet of wood awaited sale and shipment by rail to the west. Grain ships, returning from the...
...waist in the hold of a ship or the belly of a rail car ensuring the stream of grain that fell from...
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First National Park in the Middle West, Sarah S. Marcus(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...at the lakeshore via the South Shore commuter rail line. By 1990, approximately 8.5 million people...
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Printing, Paul F. Gehl(
Authored Entry
) ...catalog publishers; they had easy access to rail transportation ; and they achieved a competitive...
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