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Lily Lake, IL, Erik Gellman(
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) ...their products to Chicago on the Great Western railroad (established in 1885). In 1990 residents of...
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Marengo, IL, Craig L. Pfannkuche(
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) ...with the coming of the Galena & Chicago Union Railroad in 1851. An important commercial center for...
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Mayors, Melvin G. Holli(
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) ...principal in the nation's first transcontinental railroad . He built the city's credit reputation as...
...time president of the Chicago & Milwaukee Railroad. As president of the Board of Trade, Chicago's...
...year. The disputed mayoralty and the violent railroad strike of 1877 brought about a sea change in...
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Peotone, IL, Erik Gellman(
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) ...established Peotone around the Illinois Central Railroad in the late 1850s. The Rathje family built...
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Porter, IN, Erik Gellman(
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) ...name. Industry followed the construction of railroads through the area. A number of brickyards were...
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Lake Bluff, IL, Michael H. Ebner(
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) ...appreciated its assets: lovely beaches, a railroad , and the cachet of North Shore. Guests summered...
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Publishing, Book, Connie Goddard(
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) ...got its start printing timetables, and the railroads also made possible Chicago's early emergence as...
...arrived in 1846, two years before the first railroad; a few years later his Literary Emporium on the...
...McNally started in 1856 and soon began printing railroad tickets and timetables, which eventually...
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Residential Hotels, Paul Groth(
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) ...to living in the off-season from field work or railroad construction) the only available homes were...
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Richton Park, IL, Ian McGiver(
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) ...After the arrival of the Illinois Central Railroad in 1852, developers established a depot and...
...the Sauk Trail. In 1926, the Illinois Central Railroad electrified its suburban lines, with Richton...
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Riverdale, IL, Dave Bartlett(
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) ...1850s as farmers and lumbermen. In 1852 the Illinois Central Railroad came through Riverdale, and by...
...1880 a total of six railroads crossed the area. Industries that followed—including distilleries,...
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Roselle, IL, Jane S. Teague(
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) ...clout to persuade the Chicago & Pacific Railroad (Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul) to reroute through...
...and gristmills, as well as access to the railroad “milk run. ” The village of Bloomingdale was...
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Schaumburg, IL, David Buisseret(
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) ...suburban towns in that itdid not start around a railroad depot. The area, which was very marshy,...
...though fertile, was swampy, and there was no railroad depot to open the communications with Chicago...
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Schiller Park, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
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) ...known as Kolze. In 1886 the Wisconsin Central Railroad bought a strip of Kolze's land and built a...
...so named because of its scenic landscape. The railroad built a depot in Fairview that was first used...
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South Chicago Heights, IL, Larry A. McClellan(
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) ...Brown's Corner was a stop on the underground railroad . Brown's Corner remained well known. By the...
...the depot of the Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad , voted to become the village of South Chicago...
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St. Charles, IL, David Buisseret(
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) ...about 1859 St. Charles was served by the St. Charles Branch Railroad . But regular rail service did...
...when the Chicago, Saint Paul & Kansas City Railroad established a depot, ushering in a period of...
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Summit, IL, John D. Schroeder(
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) ...Summit has been served by several major railroad lines running through the valley; its importance as...
...junction increased when the Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad entered from the east along 63rd Street....
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Westmont, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
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) ...Road. The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad began stopping in Westmont (then Bushville) in 1864....
...He built his factory on the highest point of the railroad so that after bricks were loaded onto a...
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Wheeling, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
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) ...In 1886 a line of the Wisconsin Central Railroad came through town, stopping at a station just south...
...had formed a township government in 1850. When railroad workers and laborers began frequenting...
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Calumet Heights, Elizabeth A. Patterson(
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) ...on the north, South Chicago Avenue on the east, and railroad lines on the west and south (along 95th...
...In 1881, the New York, Chicago & St. Louis railroad built rail yards at the area's western border,...
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Des Plaines, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
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) ...community member, Rand helped to build the railroad by providing timber for a sawmill, and became...
...was named for him. The Illinois & Wisconsin Railroad (later known as the Chicago & North Western...
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