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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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Waterfront, Dennis H. Cremin(
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) ...heart of the city, such as the Illinois Central Railroad line that was run in the 1850s along the...
...to the lake, and in 1852 the Illinois Central Railroad was allowed to enter the city on an offshore...
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Hungarians, Eva Becsei(
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) ...of the Illinois Central and Nickel Plate Railroads. Burnside became even more prominent in the 1920s...
...groups working in the district's mills, railroads , and large factories. In most families women went...
...the West Side, the factories of the Northwestern Railroad attracted immigrant workers. Although the...
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South Loop, Dennis McClendon(
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) ...built houses along Michigan and Wabash Avenues. Railroads entering Chicago in the 1850s established...
...remaining residential character. By 1900, railroad tracks filled the area from State Street to...
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Wayne, IL, Jane S. Teague(
Authored Entry
) ...after Maj. Gen. Anthony Wayne). The first railroad arrived in 1849, and Solomon Dunham arranged for...
...business districts in both locations. Three railroads etched their way through the township by 1888,...
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Western Springs, IL, Tom Sterling(
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) ...located along the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad between Chicago and Aurora, encompasses...
...and post office for the entire area. The CB&Q Railroad built a line through Western Springs in 1863,...
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Crete, IL, Larry A. McClellan(
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) ...was a key stopping point on the Underground Railroad , and strong abolitionist sentiment led to a...
...in 1869, the Chicago, Danville & Vincennes Railroad came through Crete, connecting to markets in...
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Deportation and Repatriation, Francisco E. Balderrama(
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) ...worked in a variety of industries, including railroads, meatpacking plants, and steel mills. Mexican...
...trucks, public and private agencies preferred railroad transportation, because the trains were more...
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Glen Ellyn, IL, Jane S. Teague(
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) ...of settlement shifted to the south when the railroad came through the village in 1849. Although no...
...Lewey Q. Newton deeded a right-of-way to the railroad and offered to build a depot and water tank at...
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Grant Park, Max Grinnell(
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) ...for over 40 years. Initially, the Illinois Central Railroad ran parallel to the park in the Lake....
...Landfill eventually brought the railroad tracks into the park. Aaron Montgomery Ward brought suit...
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Gurnee, IL, Mark Howard Long(
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) ...neighbor to the east. The arrival of the railroad in 1873 not only linked Warren with the regional...
...its name. The depot at Warren was named for railroad land agent and former Chicago Mayor Walter S....
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