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Yorkville, IL, Brandon Johnson(
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) ...arrival of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad in 1870. Smaller retail stores satisfy the bulk...
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Hebron, IN, Brandon Johnson(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
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) ...platted in 1852along the Michigan Central Railroad , served as an important shipping center for...
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Rescue Missions, R. Jonathan Moore(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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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McCook, IL, Ronald S. Vasile(
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) ...flooding of the nearby Des Plaines River . The coming of railroads in the 1880s spurred development....
...The village's name probably honors Santa Fe railroad director John James McCook. Several quarries...
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Press: Suburban Press, Richard Junger(
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) ...settlements along Chicago's growing passenger railroad system. It was joined by papers such as the...
...in their own communities and neighborhoods. The railroads simplified newspaper distribution to the...
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Czechs and Bohemians, Alicia Cozine(
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) ...to Chicago began in the 1850s, after the railroads had linked the city to the East Coast. In the...
...in 1875. Czech emigration swelled as faster railroads to port cities like Hamburg facilitated that...
...fighting with police and militia in the Great Railroad Strike of 1877 and other labor conflicts. The...
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South Chicago, David Bensman(
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) ...location at the intersection of river and railroad transportation routes fostered early growth....
...skilled labor for the flourishing steel, grain, railroad, and lumber industries. The Brown Iron and...
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Great Migration, James Grossman(
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) ...in part on the breadth of the Illinois Central Railroad network. By the time World War I opened...
...black population was most concentrated. Other railroad lines also offered access to Chicago from...
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South Side, Dominic A. Pacyga(
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) ...by historical circumstances points to the railroad tracks just east of Western Avenue, a marker that...
...and their expansion. The Illinois Central Railroad opened its first Hyde Park station at 51st and...
...homes, of George Pullman, manufacturer of luxury railroad cars; Marshall Field, the department store...
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IC Industries Inc., (
Business Dictionary
) ...Minneapolis but maintained most of its operations in Chicago. See also Illinois Central Railroad ....
...holding company for the Illinois Central Railroad. In 1965, the company's annual revenues approached...
...Foundry), a manufacturer of automobile and railroad products that had been employing hundreds of...
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Illinois and Michigan Canal, John Lamb(
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) ...preservation. i3275-25 Illinois Central Railroad steam locomotives at Randolph Street Station, 1893....
...rapidly when the Chicago & Rock Island Railroad began competing in 1854. Commodity traffic continued...
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Melrose Park, IL, Richard Harris(
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) ...motor plant along the Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad . Other businesses in Melrose Park after World...
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Olympia Fields, IL, John H. Long(
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) ...acres northwest of where the Illinois Central Railroad crosses Lincoln Highway. With that exception,...
...incorporation was achieved in 1927 by counting railroad workers temporarily housed in cars on a...
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