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Chicago, North Shore & Milwaukee Railway Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...This commuter rail line originated when a short street railway between North Chicago and Waukegan...
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Demography, Walter Nugent(
Authored Entry
) ...no topographical obstacles to Chicago's future as a rail and shipping center. In its first 50 to 75...
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Water in Chicago, Ann Keating(
Interpretive Digital Essay
) ...growth of metropolitan Chicago during the rail/industrial age; the hubris of past Chicagoans in the...
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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...
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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...
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"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-...
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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-...
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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...
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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-...
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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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An Upstart Behemoth, 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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Chicago's Twentieth-Century Cultural Exports, 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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Creating the Plan, Carl Smith(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Essay)
) ...previously prepared a report on reorganizing rail service in Chicago. The work pace of the committee...
...planners presented their ideas on what to do about rail congestion and inefficiency and then left...
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Colonial Trans-Atlantic Networks, 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-...
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A Cosmopolitan Frontier, 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-...
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Work, David Moberg(
Authored Entry
) ...production. Manufacturers in Chicago, with rail access to abundant southern Illinois coal , turned...
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Street Life, Perry R. Duis(
Authored Entry
) ...because it was the hub of the nation's growing rail network. By the end of the century thousands of...
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American Car & Foundry Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...facilities, which specialized in the making of rail loaders, snowplows, and graders. AmericanCar,...
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Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railway Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...The Milwaukee & Waukesha Rail Road Co. , founded in Wisconsin in 1847, soon became the Milwaukee &...
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Illinois Central Railroad (Corporate History), (
Business Dictionary
) ...Chicago commuter lines to the Metropolitan Rail (Metra). One year later, the road left IC Industries...
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