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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(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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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Burbank, IL, Betsy Gurlacz(
Authored Entry
) ...materialized. Instead German and Dutch truck farmers settled in the area. Railroad executive A. B....
...Stickney planned a massive freight railroad transfer center that included the northern part of...
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Pilsen, Erik Gellman(
Authored Entry
) ...of the neighborhood), and the Burlington Railroad (the western boundary of Pilsen). After the 1871...
...mills, garment finishing sweatshops, and railroad yard jobs defined the neighborhood. The creation...
...Lumber shover strikes in 1875–76 inspired a railroad strike in 1877 (part of a national strike) that...
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Deer Park, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
Authored Entry
) ...followed, and in 1854 the Illinois & Wisconsin Railroad (Chicago & North Western Railway) laid track...
...from Chicago. When the railroad sought to buy land surrounding the station in hopes of building a...
...of the area disturbed. In response, the railroad moved the depot two miles west to Barrington ....
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Geneva, IL, Sherry Meyer(
Authored Entry
) ...to the town under her own name along the railroad. Of their 10 children, James became the first...
...the new axis of the Chicago & North Western Railroad . In the twentieth century, automobiles allowed...
...to this day. Arriving with construction of the railroad, they became a crucial component in the...
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Highland Park, IL, Derek Vaillant(
Authored Entry
) ...and president of the Chicago & Milwaukee Railroad , took control of the Port Clinton Land Company...
...Hill Summer Settlement House encampment, the Railroad Men's Home, and Wildwood, a resort for German-...
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Hinsdale, IL, Tom Sterling(
Authored Entry
) ...along the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad , roughly encompasses the area between Kingery...
...petitioned the Chicago, Burlington, & Quincy Railroad to build a line through Fullersburg. Because...
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Homewood, IL, John H. Long(
Authored Entry
) ...city is its location on the Illinois Central Railroad . There is no evidence of a Native American...
...Hartford. The next year the Illinois Central Railroad commenced service with a stop called Thornton...
...Calumet, Flossmoor, and Olympia Fields. The railroad attracted more new residents to both towns by...
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Itasca, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
Authored Entry
) ...increased in 1873 when the Chicago & Pacific Railroad , later the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul,...
...a line through Itasca. Smith donated land for the railroad's right-of-way and money to construct the...
...four hundred acres located north of the railroad and on the western edge of the community were...
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Kensington, Janice L. Reiff(
Authored Entry
) ...Born as a railroad town named Calumet Junction, Kensington grew up...
...the Illinois Central and Michigan Central railroads connected in 1852. The town grew slowly until,...
...Yankee residents lived there, servicing the railroads and the population of farmers in the vicinity....
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La Grange, IL, Sarah S. Marcus(
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) ...framework for a sprawling metropolis. As railroads reached into new areas, real-estate developers...
...La Grange's population, like that of many other railroad suburbs, represented a socioeconomic mix of...
...the Chicago metropolitan area begun by the railroads, Cossitt, and other real-estate developers. By...
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