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151 Publishing, Book, Connie Goddard( Authored Entry )
...to the city's rapid development as the nation's rail center— Rand McNally got its start printing...
152 Commuting, Michael P. Conzen( Authored Entry )
...well as factory sites along developing river and rail corridors within the core areas of the urban...
153 Underground Economy, Christopher Thale( Authored Entry )
...specialized vice districts radiated out from rail stations at the edges of the Loop, making little...
154 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...
155 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...
156 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....
157 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...
158 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...
159 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...
160 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....
161 Chicago, North Shore & Milwaukee Railway Co., ( Business Dictionary )
...This commuter rail line originated when a short street railway between North Chicago and Waukegan...
162 Demography, Walter Nugent( Authored Entry )
...no topographical obstacles to Chicago's future as a rail and shipping center. In its first 50 to 75...
163 Water in Chicago, Ann Keating( Interpretive Digital Essay )
...growth of metropolitan Chicago during the rail/industrial age; the hubris of past Chicagoans in the...
164 Grain Trade, Page 1, Ann Durkin Keating( Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay) )
...for grain elevators, with ready water and rail access. However, Armour found his storage inadequate...
165 Connecting Houses to Water Networks, Page 2, Ann Durkin Keating( Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay) )
...Settlements emerged around stops along these rail lines for farmers, industries, commuters, and...
166 "The Whole World Is Watching", Sarah S. Marcus( Interpretive Digital Essay (Gallery) )
...Environment in a Mercantile Metropolis Networks of Rails World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 Turn-...
167 Corporate Headquarters and Industrial Relics, Sarah S. Marcus( Interpretive Digital Essay (Gallery) )
...Environment in a Mercantile Metropolis Networks of Rails World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 Turn-...
168 Chicago Studied: Social Scientists and Their City, Andrew Abbott and Jolyon Wurr( Authored Entry )
...to the man-made aspects of physical geography: to rail lines and canals, to major arteries and their...
169 Global Capitalism and Chicago Real Estate, Ann Durkin Keating and Sarah S. Marcus( Interpretive Digital Essay (Gallery) )
...Environment in a Mercantile Metropolis Networks of Rails World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 Turn-...
170 World's Columbian Exposition of 1893, Sarah S. Marcus( Interpretive Digital Essay (Gallery) )
...Environment in a Mercantile Metropolis Networks of Rails World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 Turn-...

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