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Burbank, IL, Betsy Gurlacz(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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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Orland Park, IL, Larry A. McClellan(
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) ...suburb, Orland Park has a town center next to a railroad commuter station. The center includes many...
...family. When the Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific Railroad completed its rail line through the area in...
...to what was platted as the town center for the railroad stop. The Wabash had named its train stop...
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Park Forest, IL, Todd J. Tubutis(
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) ...as stops for runaway slaves on the Underground Railroad . The Batcheldor property became the largest...
...future Park Forest. In 1852 the Illinois Central Railroad was built along the northwestern border of...
...the future Park Forest, and the Michigan Central Railroad came through in 1853 to intersect with the...
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Phoenix, IL, Larry A. McClellan(
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) ...factories lay between the Illinois Central Railroad and Harvey's eastern boundary at Halsted Street....
...and the South. Industry in Harvey and the railroads , including the Markham Yards of the Illinois...
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Plainfield, IL, Aaron Harwig(
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) ...systems were boosted when the Chicago Belt Line Railroad laid track through the village, helping it...
...the Joliet , Plainfield & Aurora interurban Railroad opened an electric line connecting those three...
...primarily to promote travel on the fledgling railroad, Electric Park quickly became a popular...
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Expressways, Dennis McClendon(
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) ...Most of the urban routes were built next to railroad embankments, but others were criticized for...
...from next to the Chicago & Western Indiana Railroad (400 West) to run next to the Rock Island Line...
...reshaped the region as dramatically as had the railroads a century earlier. The Edens Expressway...
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Work Culture, Lynn Y. Weiner(
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) ...the 1840s and then the expansion of the first railroads by the 1850s increased the market range for...
...disorders among stevedores, lumberyard workers, railroad workers , and stockyard laborers during the...
...legislation. Chicago women who worked as elevated railroad ticket agents, for example, protested in...
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Oswego, IL, Brandon Johnson(
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) ...position on the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad . Oswego is home to a Caterpillar Tractor...
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Dearborn Park, Erik Gellman(
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) ...George Halas in 1977 to bestow 51 acres of railroad yards for redevelopment as Dearborn Park. The...
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Elburn, IL, Craig L. Pfannkuche(
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) ...Station when the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad built through the area in 1854, the village...
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Kouts, IN, Erik Gellman(
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) ...controlled the region. Kouts developed around a railroad station in the nineteenth century. The town...
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