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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(
Authored Entry
) ...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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Publishing, Book, Connie Goddard(
Authored Entry
) ...to the city's rapid development as the nation's rail center— Rand McNally got its start printing...
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Commuting, Michael P. Conzen(
Authored Entry
) ...well as factory sites along developing river and rail corridors within the core areas of the urban...
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Underground Economy, Christopher Thale(
Authored Entry
) ...specialized vice districts radiated out from rail stations at the edges of the Loop, making little...
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Architecture: The City Beautiful Movement, Thomas S. Hines(
Authored Entry
) ...commerce. The stations and tracks of competing rail lines would be consolidated into several train...
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Chicago, Burlington, & Quincy Railroad Co., H. Roger Grant.(
Business Dictionary
) ...which included several of the area's early rail lines, was changed to the Chicago, Burlington &...
...employer in the Chicago region. As the company's rail network expanded, annual revenues rose to...
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Chicago, Rock Island, & Pacific Railroad Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...In 1854, this company completed a rail link between Chicago and Rock Island, Illinois; in 1856, it...
...to bridge the Mississippi River. In 1866, the rail absorbed the Mississippi & Missouri Railroad Co....
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Indiana Dunes, Sarah S. Marcus(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...along the lakeshore. Located within easy water or rail access of both the iron ore deposits of the...
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Real Estate, Pierre deVise(
Authored Entry
) ...in bilingual ads for lots near horsecar and rail lines in the 1880s and near elevated lines in the...
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Typhoid, Page 2, Ann Durkin Keating(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...smelled. Jordan argued that Chicago’s place as a rail center made the need for a safe water supply...
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Places of Assembly, Paula R. Lupkin(
Authored Entry
) ...circuses, and concerts. By 1890 regular rail service had spawned a ring of suburbs around the city....
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