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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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Public Works, Federal Funding for, Howard Rosen(
Authored Entry
) ...of the corps. Federal involvement during the railroad era was mostly in the form of land grants,...
...additional federal aid to the Illinois Central Railroad . Direct federal aid to Chicago (as well as...
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Salvadorans, Kate Caldwell(
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) ...refugees by establishing an “ underground railroad ” from Arizona to Chicago during 1983 and 1984,...
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Telegraph, Christopher Thale(
Authored Entry
) ...It proved critical in managing the long-distance railroad routes which made Chicago a vital link...
...Company relocated from Cleveland in 1870. Most railroad stations served as telegraph offices, so...
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Brighton Park, Clinton E. Stockwell(
Authored Entry
) ...Blue Island , Illinois. The Chicago & Alton Railroad established a roundhouse in the community, and...
...German and Irish workers. In 1887 the Santa Fe Railroad moved in, building its Corwith Yards, then...
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Canadians, Emily Brunner(
Authored Entry
) ...in 1854 with the opening of the Great Western Railroad , which connected Ontario to Chicago. Many...
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Forest Glen, David M. Solzman(
Authored Entry
) ...with the expansion of commuter rail lines. Railroad stops at Forest Glen and Edgebrook encouraged...
...10 acres for additional development. Milwaukee Railroad executives created a residential retreat...
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Hegewisch, Erik Gellman(
Authored Entry
) ...laborers and other settlers built the first railroads across this terrain into Chicago in the 1850s....
...switched its manufacturing operation from railroad cars to Howitzer tanks and other vehicles during...
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Kenwood, Max Grinnell(
Authored Entry
) ...who built his home near the Illinois Central Railroad tracks at 48th Street. He named the home...
...the area increased to 21,000 by 1920. East of the railroad tracks some vacant land remained, but the...
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Lincoln Square, Amanda Seligman(
Authored Entry
) ...tavern. The entrance faced the North Western railroad stop at Rosehill Drive as an encouragement to...
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Lockport, IL, John Lamb(
Authored Entry
) ...and the 1858 arrival of the Chicago & Alton Railroad did little to change this. Hiram Norton oversaw...
...northern boundary of Lockport. In addition, area railroads began running commuter trains to Chicago...
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