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Dearborn Park, Erik Gellman(
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) ...Street Station served as a major national rail terminus in the Near South Side community area....
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Kane County, Craig L. Pfannkuche(
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) ...90 reaching northwest from Elgin, and commuter rail expansion to Gilberts , Elburn , and Montgomery...
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McHenry County, Craig L. Pfannkuche(
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) ...Crystal Lake), and Cary prospered while non-rail communities such as Franklinville, Coral, Ostend,...
...away from urban settings, found the county's rail transportation perfect for commuting to city jobs....
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Transportation, H. Roger Grant(
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) ...was served by nearly a score of long-distance rail carriers and several switching and terminal...
...System . i2363 The Pioneer powered the first rail trip in the Chicago metropolitan area, between the...
...Central, appeared that same year. But an all-rail link between Chicago and New York City was not...
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Housing, Mail-Order, Mark S. Harmon(
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) ...Chicago-area communities that had large rail sidings during the first half of the twentieth century...
...materials typically required a community with a rail siding where boxcars could sit while waiting to...
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DuPage County, Steph McGrath(
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) ...and African Americans came to work on these rail lines and stayed to live in DuPage County....
...Chicago grew to be the Midwest's great rail center, with links to the east and west helping to...
...to DuPage. Newspapers and mail now arrived by rail, and telegraph lines followed the tracks, making...
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Innovation, Invention, and Chicago Business, Louis P. Cain(
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) ...Chicago's economic development. By the late 1860s, rail connections were available from the Atlantic...
...would become to air transport what Chicago was to rail. National Air Transport's first flight was in...
...routes were established on the basis of the rail lines. Many of Chicago's most vibrant, innovative...
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Summit, IL, John D. Schroeder(
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) ...to the Argo plant, were established. The rail yards transferred meat products from the Chicago...
...running through the valley; its importance as a rail junction increased when the Indiana Harbor Belt...
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Chicagoans Who Rejected the Railroad, Ann Durkin Keating(
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) ...that it should be undertaken by the state—Rail Roads are out of the question with us, except, in...
...in 1848, but it was only a few years before a rail line traversed the same corridor. In the late...
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Chicago Ridge, IL, Larry A. McClellan(
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) ...Calumet Terminal Railway, which also established rail yards in the village. In 1898, the Paul E....
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Hazel Crest, IL, Larry A. McClellan(
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) ...in the 1920s and '30s, the IC built the Markham rail freight yards to the north of Hazel Crest....
...yard workers moved to Hazel Crest. With the rail yards, commuter access, and local enterprises,...
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New Lenox, IL, Sarah S. Marcus(
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) ...the site of the existing settlement along the rail line. Recognizing the importance of the railroad...
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Near South Side, Dennis McClendon(
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) ...Dearborn Park , a neighborhood built on the defunct rail yards between State and Clark Streets south...
...mixed-use development on 72 acres of former rail yards and air rights east of Indiana Avenue between...
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Planning Chicago, Carl Abbott(
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) ...that embodied social purpose. As the city's new rail lines fanned outward over marshes and prairies...
...and public gathering places—all with a direct rail commute to the center of Chicago. They were...
...in 1905. The company prepared land, assured rail service, put in utilities, graded streets, built...
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Regional Transportation Authority, David M. Young(
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) ...systems in the world, including a 769-mile rail system with 205 million passenger trips a year and a...
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Great Migration, James Grossman(
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) ...from the South generally followed water and rail routes. Chicago’s popularity as a destination...
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Bellwood, IL, Patricia Krone Rose(
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) ...east and Hillside and Berkeley to the west. With rail and highway transportation readily available,...
...the village along the Indiana Harbor Belt tracks. Rail passenger service, available via the Chicago,...
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Hickory Hills, IL, Larry A. McClellan(
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) ...area north of the Calumet feeder canal, lacked rail service. The natural richness of the area had...
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Interurbans, Ronald Dale Karr(
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) ...it was powered by an electrified third rail. When the Garfield “L” was removed to construct the...
...areas and to each other. As a form of cheap “light rail” transport, this created a regional network...
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La Grange, IL, Sarah S. Marcus(
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) ...the mid-nineteenth century, the expansion of the rail system around Chicago laid the framework for a...
...and churches, contributing to the construction of a rail depot, and laying out a street plan that...
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