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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(
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) ...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(
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) ...Creek. Incorporated in 1872 to accommodate railroad -related growth which never materialized, the...
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Ringwood, IL, Craig L. Pfannkuche(
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) ...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(
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) ...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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Yorkville, IL, Brandon Johnson(
Authored Entry
) ...arrival of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad in 1870. Smaller retail stores satisfy the bulk...
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Hebron, IN, Brandon Johnson(
Authored Entry
) ...arrival of the Pittsburgh, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad motivated significant growth. Incorporated...
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Gilberts, IL, Craig L. Pfannkuche(
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) ...Station along the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad , the community served as a loading point for...
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Hebron, IL, Brandon Johnson(
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) ...The 1860 arrival of the Kenosha & Rockford Railroad allowed the township's farmers to ship livestock...
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Huntley, IL, Craig L. Pfannkuche(
Authored Entry
) ...Loop. Platted beside the Galena & Chicago Union Railroad in 1851 by Thomas Huntley and incorporated...
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Lake Station, IN, Peggy Tuck Sinko(
Authored Entry
) ...platted in 1852along the Michigan Central Railroad , served as an important shipping center for...
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Rescue Missions, R. Jonathan Moore(
Authored Entry
) ...the Chicago River. Presbyterians established the “Railroad Mission,” where poor Irish immigrants and...
...African Americans were schooled together in a railroad car. Other efforts targeted newsboys and...
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Stephen A. Douglas, Ann Durkin Keating(
Authored Entry
) ...region; and 4,610 acres from the Illinois Central Railroad . Senator Douglas was instrumental...
...the northern terminus of the Illinois Central Railroad and worked for a transcontinental route. The...
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Lake County, IL, Michael H. Ebner(
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) ...Waukegan accounted for 20 percent of county residents by 1850. Railroads transformed Lake County....
...The earliest line, the Chicago & Milwaukee Railroad, commenced in 1855 and linked Chicago and...
...and symphonies. The Elgin, Joliet, & Eastern Railroad (the Outer Belt Line), completed in 1891 as an...
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Central Manufacturing District, Clinton E. Stockwell(
Authored Entry
) ...States. Prince acquired the Chicago Junction Railroad at the turn of the century as a switching line...
...from the Chicago Union Stock Yard to major trunk railroad lines. Recognizing the potential, Prince...
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