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The City the Planners Saw, Carl Smith(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Essay)
) ...Heritage The City the Planners Saw 1909 Timeline The Plan of Chicago spends relatively little time...
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| 182 |
Chicago & North Western Railway Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...Marvin Hughitt, the length of track in the road's rail network grew from about 1,400 miles to nearly...
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| 183 |
Illinois Central Railroad Links to Chicago, (
Map
) ...from the South generally followed water and rail routes. Chicago's popularity as a destination...
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| 184 |
Interurbans in the Chicago Region, (
Map
) ...areas and to each other. As a form of cheap “light rail” transport, this created a regional network...
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| 185 |
Chicago, Rock Island, & Pacific Railroad Advertisement, 1886, Printer: J. M. W. Jones Stationery and Printing Co.(
Historical Source
) ...Starting with a single rail links between Chicago and Rock Island, the Chicago, Rock Island &...
Date Created: 1886,
Date Depicted: 1886
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| 186 |
Pioneer, Photographer: Unknown(
Historical Source
) ...The Pioneer powered the first rail trip in the Chicago metropolitan area, between the city and...
Date Created: n.d.,
Date Depicted: 1848
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Pullman Sleeping Car, 1940, Photographer: Unknown(
Historical Source
) ...in 1940, of the 90th anniversary of the first rail connection between Aurora and Chicago....
Date Created: 1940,
Date Depicted: 1940
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| 188 |
Riverside in 1871, Creator: Riverside Improvement Company(
Historical Source
) ...Settlements emerged around stops along these rail lines for farmers, industries, commuters, and...
Date Created: 1871,
Date Depicted: 1871
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| 189 |
East on Chicago River toward Rush and State Street Bridges, c.1910s, Photographer: Unknown(
Historical Source
) ...Bridge in 1920. Note the freight station and rail yards on either side of the State Street Bridge...
Date Created: c.1910s,
Date Depicted: c. 1910s
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| 190 |
From Lake Michigan To You: A Description of the Chicago Water System, 1988, Creator: City of Chicago, Department of Water(
Historical Source
) ...systems had emerged to serve settlements along rail lines out from the city center. This 1988...
Date Created: 1988,
Date Depicted: 1988
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| 191 |
Year Page: 1848, Douglas Knox and Michael Conzen(
Year Page
) ...miles west. Within three years, however, Eastern rail lines arrived, and planning for the Illinois...
...was underway. Within a decade Chicago would be the rail hub of the United States. Transportation and...
...from the canal. Freight trafficby both canal and rail provided a significant boost toChicago as an...
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| 192 |
Typhoid Fever and Water Supply in Chicago, 1902, Author: Edwin Oakes Jordan(
Historical Source
) ...smelled. Jordan argued that Chicago’s place as a rail center made the need for a safe water supply...
Date Created: 1903,
Date Depicted: 1902
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| 193 |
Portrait of William B. Ogden, Creator: G. P. A. Healy(
Historical Source
) ...Ogden saw the important connection between rail and water transportation and ran the terminus of the...
Date Created: 1855,
Date Depicted: 1855
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| 194 |
Aurora Sunday Beacon-News5 Sept. 1937 (Centennial Edition), Creator: Aurora Sunday Beacon-News(
Historical Source
) ...DeKalb counties are seen as its tributaries, strung out along rail and water transportation lines....
Date Created: 1937,
Date Depicted: 1937
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| 195 |
Mount Baldy, Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore, 1994, Photographer: Karen E. Spierling(
Historical Source
) ...at the lakeshore via the South Shore commuter rail line. By 1990, approximately 8.5 million people...
Date Created: 1994,
Date Depicted: 1994
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| 196 |
McCormick Works of International Harvester Co., c.1910, Creator: International Harvester Co.(
Historical Source
) ...and Western Avenues took advantage of proximity to rail and water transportation corridors that ran...
Date Created: c.1910,
Date Depicted: c.1910
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| 197 |
Institutions of Memory, (
Historical Source
) ...are seen as its tributaries, strung out along rail and water transportation lines. <emph>Aurora...
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| 198 |
Galena & Chicago Union Station, c. 1849, Photographer: Unknown(
Historical Source
) ...from the canal. Freight traffic by both canal and rail provided a significant boost to Chicago as an...
Date Created: 1849,
Date Depicted: 1849
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| 199 |
Introduction, (
User's Guide or Introductory Material
) ...always play a role in various stories. The timeline links key events to corresponding entries,...
...survey of Chicago history in the form of a timeline and "year pages," cross-references, maps,...
...the editors have themselves drawn the map: a timeline . Appearing in a special color insert, the...
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| 200 |
Development of Railroad Lines from Chicago, (
Table
) ...Development of Railroad Lines from Chicago Rail Line on Map Date of Line Historical Significance...
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