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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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Riverdale, Janice L. Reiff(
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) ...an industrial area bound by the Illinois Central Railroad on the west, the city limits on the south,...
...junction of the Illinois and Michigan Central Railroads at Kensington in 1852. Between the two at...
...industrial purposes. From the 1850s on, the railroads that cut through the area claimed significant...
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East Chicago, IN, Derek Vaillant(
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) ...a farsighted civil engineer connected with railroads , began accumulating land along Lake Michigan....
...Terminal Beltline (later the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad) linked the settlement to Chicago's trunk...
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Greater Grand Crossing, Wallace Best(
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) ...lines of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railroad . The intersection remained dangerous for many...
...transportation to Chicago was assured via the railroads. Cornell began buying large tracts of land...
...English , and Scottish descent and developed railroad settlements in the southeast portion of...
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Jefferson Park, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
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) ...When the Chicago, St. Paul & Fond du Lac Railroad (Chicago & North Western) laid tracks and built a...
...bus stop, a Chicago & North Western commuter railroad station, and an Elevated line. In the 1980s...
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Avondale, David M. Solzman(
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) ...westward to the tracks of the Soo Line Railroad (originally the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul...
...developed along this road, as well as along the railroad lines that subsequently paralleled it west...
...prodigious development between 1890 and 1920. The railroads and a horsecar line on Milwaukee Avenue...
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Chicago & North Western Railway Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...Northwest Industries; four years later, the railroad was spun off and sold to its employees,...
...Western Transportation Co. In 1986, when the railroad's annual revenues were nearly $1 billion, it...
...It finally ceased to exist as an independent railroad in 1995, when it was bought by another old...
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Broadview, IL, Patricia Krone Rose(
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) ...Land along 25th Avenue and the Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad near Broadview's western boundary and...
...land along the Illinois Central Railroad was designated as industrial. A wide variety of industries...
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Uptown, Amanda Seligman(
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) ...convinced the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad to stop at Bryn Mawr Avenue and two decades...
...in the building of the Northwestern Elevated Railroad Company tracks near his developments. These...
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Cook County, Ann Durkin Keating(
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) ...began raising crops and livestock. Without railroads , some farmers hauled their harvest to Chicago,...
...county's population lived within the city. The railroad (and increasingly street railways ) allowed...
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Auburn Gresham, Eileen M. McMahon(
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) ...Chicago in 1889. Earlysettlers were German and Dutch truck farmers. When railroad lines were laid in...
...the mid-nineteenth century, Irish railroad workers came to the area. The World's Columbian...
...as police and firefighters , as well as railroad and construction workers , found the neighborhood...
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