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Chicago & North Western Railroad Pamphlet, c.1911, (
Historical Source
) ...Chicago & North Western Railroad Pamphlet, c.1911...
...Chicago & Northwestern Railroad pamphlet cover, c. 1911....
Date Created: c.1911,
Date Depicted: c.1911
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Petition to Illinois Central Railroad, 1891, Creators: Various(
Historical Source
) ...Petition to Illinois Central Railroad, 1891...
...efforts to impose restrictions on the Illinois Central Railroad. As the petition reveals, several...
...with the environmental effects of the heavy railroad traffic on the city and its residents. Equally...
Date Created: 1891,
Date Depicted: 1891
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Chicago, Rock Island, & Pacific Railroad Advertisement, 1886, Printer: J. M. W. Jones Stationery and Printing Co.(
Historical Source
) ...Chicago, Rock Island, & Pacific Railroad Advertisement, 1886...
...Rock Island, the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad became the first to bridge the Mississippi,...
Date Created: 1886,
Date Depicted: 1886
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Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railroad Station, 1872, Artist: Unknown(
Historical Source
) ...Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railroad Station, 1872...
Date Created: 1872,
Date Depicted: 1872
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Striking Illinois Central Railroad Workers in Burnside, 1911, Photographer: Chicago Daily News(
Historical Source
) ...Striking Illinois Central Railroad Workers in Burnside, 1911...
...Chicago's smallest community area, Burnside, is bounded on all sides by railroad tracks. During...
...the first half of the twentieth century, railroads not only dominated Burnside's landscape, but also...
Date Created: 1911,
Date Depicted: 1911
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Chicago and North Western Railroad Advertisement, 1887, Creator: Poole Bros., Printers and Engravers.(
Historical Source
) ...Chicago and North Western Railroad Advertisement, 1887...
...Chicago's railroads expanded leisure space for Chicagoans and for Americans more generally. In this...
Date Created: 1887,
Date Depicted: 1887
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Chicago & North Western Railroad Commuter Time Card, 1886, Creator: Chicago Tribune(
Historical Source
) ...Chicago & North Western Railroad Commuter Time Card, 1886...
Date Created: 1886,
Date Depicted: 1886
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North Chicago Street Railroad Cable Car, late 1880s, Photographer: Unknown(
Historical Source
) ...North Chicago Street Railroad Cable Car, late 1880s...
Date Created: c.1880s,
Date Depicted: c.1880s
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Country Clubs on Suburban Line of the Illinois Central Railroad, Creator: Illinois Central Railroad Co.(
Historical Source
) ...Country Clubs on Suburban Line of the Illinois Central Railroad...
...Creator: Illinois Central Railroad Co....
...however, sites served by the Illinois Central Railroad were much more convenient. In 1898, a group...
Date Created: n.d.,
Date Depicted: n.d.
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Illinois Central Railroad north from Harrison Street toward Van Buren Street Station and Viaduct, 1896, Photographer: Illinois Central Railroad Company(
Historical Source
) ...Illinois Central Railroad north from Harrison Street toward Van Buren Street Station and Viaduct,...
...Photographer: Illinois Central Railroad Company...
...public land by granting the Illinois Central Railroad Company (ICRC) a right of way to lay tracks...
Date Created: 1896,
Date Depicted: 1896
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"Around the World" via the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad, 1870, Creator: Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad(
Historical Source
) ...Around the World" via the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad, 1870...
...Creator: Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad...
...Chicago, Rock Island, and Pacific Railroad poster advertising "Around the World" travel via railway...
Date Created: 1870,
Date Depicted: 1870
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View of Lakefront, with Illinois Central Railroad Yards in Foreground, n.d., Creator: Unknown(
Historical Source
) ...View of Lakefront, with Illinois Central Railroad Yards in Foreground, n.d....
...century, despite the prominent presence of the railroad, Chicago promoted its Lake Front Park as a...
...promotional photograph, the park is barely visible behind the railroad cars along the shoreline....
Date Created: n.d.,
Date Depicted: n.d.
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Bird's-Eye View of Elevated Railroads, Parks and Boulevards, 1910, Publisher: McComber Directory Company(
Historical Source
) ...Bird's-Eye View of Elevated Railroads, Parks and Boulevards, 1910...
Date Created: 1910,
Date Depicted: 1910
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Marshfield Avenue Station of the Metropolitan West Side Elevated Railroad, Creator: Unknown(
Historical Source
) ...Marshfield Avenue Station of the Metropolitan West Side Elevated Railroad...
...main line of the Metropolitan West Side Elevated Railroad before it split into its three branches:...
Date Created: n.d.,
Date Depicted: n.d.
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Chicago's Railroad Pattern in 1950, (
Map
) ...Chicago's Railroad Pattern in 1950...
...area built to exchange freight between the trunk railroads and to service metropolitan industry....
...in 1950 was at the height of its power as the railroad center of the United States. Fully 37 long-...
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Railroads and Chicago's Loop, circa 1930, (
Map
) ...Railroads and Chicago's Loop, circa 1930...
...developed an extraordinary concentration of railroad terminals and related warehousing districts...
...warehouse quarters (purple) adjacent to the railroad stations, yards, and riverfront and lakeside...
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Railroad Commuting to Chicago in 1934, (
Map
) ...Railroad Commuting to Chicago in 1934...
...within the core of the industrial-era city, railroads served that function further out and pioneered...
...daily trains from Hyde Park in 1856, Chicago's railroads developed a complex octopus-like network of...
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Illinois Central Railroad Links to Chicago, (
Map
) ...Illinois Central Railroad Links to Chicago...
...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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Development of Railroad Lines from Chicago, (
Table
) ...Development of Railroad Lines from Chicago...
...Chicago built in 1886. Wabash Wabash Railroad (1877) St. Louis — Kansas City 1886 Under Jay...
...agriculture. C&EI Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad (1877) St. Louis, Evansville 1871 Served...
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Transportation, H. Roger Grant(
Authored Entry
) ...and Chicago retained its status as the American railroad center. Moreover, the city gained the...
...could rightly claim that their city was the railroad mecca of America. Chicago was served by nearly...
...for the early growth of Chicago, after which railroads confirmed the city’s centrality within the...
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