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Dixmoor, IL, Larry A. McClellan(
Authored Entry
) ...Florida. The tracks of the Grand Trunk Western Railroad cut through the center of Dixmoor. From 1907...
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Elgin, IL, David Buisseret(
Authored Entry
) ...to the lead mines of Galena. In 1849, the Galena & Chicago Union Railroad reached Elgin, which later...
...would be served by railroads running along both banks of the Fox River, linking the growing town to...
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Elk Grove Village, IL, David Buisseret(
Authored Entry
) ...a nineteenth-century market town, or around a railroad depot; indeed, it did not come into existence...
...round the future site of Elk Grove Village. No railroad traversed this part of the country, and it...
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Evergreen Park, IL, Betsy Gurlacz(
Authored Entry
) ...95th Street crisscrossed the farmland and provided access to markets. The first railroad (now the...
...Grand Trunk Railroad) came through the area in 1873. In 1875, the community built its first school...
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Glenwood, IL, Ian McGiver(
Authored Entry
) ...along the recently completed Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad . Glenwood served as a depot...
...farmers and a home to workers employed in the railroad's nearby switch tracks, round table, and coal...
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Griffith, IN, Jennifer Mrozowski(
Authored Entry
) ...Best Factory Suburb,” as it had numerous railroads crossing through it, including the Erie &...
...steady, with residents attracted to jobs in the railroad industry, at the steel mills in Gary and...
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Kenilworth, IL, Jan Olive Nash(
Authored Entry
) ...residents bought the 40 acres west of the railroad to ensure compatible development. No additional...
...only along Green Bay Road, which parallels the railroad. In 2000, Kenilworth's population was 2,494,...
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Lansing, IL, Dave Bartlett(
Authored Entry
) ...first business, the Union Hotel, was built. The Pennsylvania Railroad came through Lansing in 1856,...
...followed later by the Grand Trunk Railroad. In 1865, Henry Lansing was named postmaster and John...
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Matteson, IL, Ian McGiver(
Authored Entry
) ...Illinois Central and Michigan Central Railroads . They named the new community after then Illinois...
...village, especially near Main Street and the railroad. However, most of the village's stores are...
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Maywood, IL, Jean Louise Guarino(
Authored Entry
) ...the north side of the Chicago & North Western Railroad tracks, which bisected the community. In the...
...factory district along the north side of the railroad tracks. Maywood gained a major institution in...
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Michigan City, IN, Elizabeth A. Patterson(
Authored Entry
) ...trade gradually died out. The Michigan Central Railroad moved its rail shops at the close of World...
...the Chicago, South Shore & South Bend Railroad. Both the highway and the electric interurban...
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Midlothian, IL, Dave Bartlett(
Authored Entry
) ...Blue Island Railway to connect its clubhouse to the Rock Island Railroad at 147th street, and was...
...unique in having the only railroad owned by a country club. A small community developed around the...
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Mundelein, IL, Craig L. Pfannkuche(
Authored Entry
) ...of Mechanic's Grove. When the Wisconsin Central Railroad built through the area to Chicago in 1880,...
...the line's most notable stockholder, the railroad renamed the station after William Rockefeller in...
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Northbrook, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
Authored Entry
) ...was laid and the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad began to haul the bricks to the city for...
...store, a harness store, a stonecutter, and a railroad station. Shermerville gained notoriety during...
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Norwood Park, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
Authored Entry
) ...Scandinavians. In 1853 the Illinois & Wisconsin Railroad , eventually the Chicago & North Western...
...the village, most were built close to the railroad. Improvements to roads such as Milwaukee Avenue,...
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O'Hare, Amanda Seligman(
Authored Entry
) ...area called Orchard Place, named for the depot the Wisconsin Central Railroad opened there in 1887....
...Despite the railroad, however, few people settled in Orchard Place. A residential subdivision opened...
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Pinkertons, J. Anthony Lukas(
Authored Entry
) ...detective agency. For corporate America—notably railroads , mines, and others involved in interstate...
...vice president of the Illinois Central Railroad , that made his name. When President Abraham Lincoln...
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Back of the Yards, James R. Barrett(
Authored Entry
) ...39th to 55th Streets between Halsted and the railroad tracks along Leavitt Street, just south and...
...in the country. The concentration of railroads in the mid-nineteenth century, the establishment of...
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West Garfield Park, Amanda Seligman(
Authored Entry
) ...after G. W. Tilton, superintendent of the railroad shops. Residents from as far south as Harrison...
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Creating the Plan, Carl Smith(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Essay)
) ...navigated the Chicago River ; the miles of railroad tracks within the city; the specifications of...
...how to improve this portion of the city. Railroad executive Delano had previously prepared a report...
...downtown lakefront would be dominated by piers, railroad tracks, and warehouses. The Commercial Club...
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