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Riverdale, Janice L. Reiff(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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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Planning Chicago, Carl Abbott(
Authored Entry
) ...planned residential communities along commuter railroad lines were models for other nineteenth-...
...It gave over the lakefront to factories, railroads, and harbor. For the rest of the site, U.S. Steel...
...The Union Stock Yard and the Chicago Junction Railroad organized the Central District in 1890 and...
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The City the Planners Saw, Carl Smith(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Essay)
) ...vitality of Chicago—notably its streets, railroad rights-of-way, and harbor—were terribly congested,...
...of this was the helter-skelter arrangement of railroad freight yards and terminals. Citing the work...
...offices, stores, banks, hotels, theaters, and railroad terminals all vied for space—the city was...
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Vernon Hills, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
Authored Entry
) ...they started a two-hundred-acre farm in 1851. In 1885 railroad tracks were laid, enabling farmers to...
...move their crops via the Soo Line Railroad . The community remained agricultural until the 1950s,...
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Elmhurst, IL, Jane S. Teague(
Authored Entry
) ...was adopted in 1953. Elmhurst grew as a railroad suburb with many urban amenities, including...
...place. In 1849 the Galena & Chicago Union Railroad arrived, and the community was officially named...
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Demography, Walter Nugent(
Authored Entry
) ...perfectly timed to take maximum advantage of railroads and steamships, which were the advanced...
...Migration boosted it tremendously in the age of railroads and heavy industry; outbound migration to...
...with Europe's mass migration to the Americas. Railroads in and out of the city, and street railways...
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Richmond, IL, Craig L. Pfannkuche(
Authored Entry
) ...Creek. Incorporated in 1872 to accommodate railroad -related growth which never materialized, the...
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Ringwood, IL, Craig L. Pfannkuche(
Authored Entry
) ...County, 55 miles NW of the Loop. After the C&NW railroad built through a large treeringed meadow,...
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Spring Grove, IL, Craig L. Pfannkuche(
Authored Entry
) ...hamlet stagnated even after the Milwaukee Road Railroad appeared in 1900. Incorporating in 1902 in...
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Union, IL, Craig L. Pfannkuche(
Authored Entry
) ...as a station on the Galena & Chicago Union Railroad , the village failed to prosper. Incorporated in...
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Volo, IL, Craig L. Pfannkuche(
Authored Entry
) ...Forksville. The community failed to prosper when railroads bypassed the area. Fearing aggressive...
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