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Lombard, IL, Elizabeth M. Holland(
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) ...Society. In 1849, the Galena & Chicago Union Railroad ran two trains daily each way through...
...began to send their goods to Chicago along the railroad, quickly putting the stagecoach line out of...
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Naperville, IL, Ann Durkin Keating(
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) ...right-of-way for the Galena & Chicago Union Railroad when its representatives came prospecting that...
...chance when the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad ran its line through Naperville in 1864....
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Austin, Judith A. Martin(
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) ...lines, notably the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad and the Lake Street Elevated; and a rivalry with...
...owing largely to steadily improving suburban railroad service. With over 4,000 residents by the...
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The Campaign to Maintain Lake Front Park, Gwen Hoerr Jordan(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...a significant amount of debris, the Illinois Central Railroad Company (ICRC) was storing cars on the...
...century, despite the prominent presence of the railroad, Chicago promoted its Lake Front Park as a...
...photograph, the park is barely visible behind the railroad cars along the shoreline. See also: Grant...
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The World in Chicago, Sarah S. Marcus(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Gallery)
) ...Ethnicity, and White Identity Illinois Central Railroad Links to Chicago Author: James R. Grossman...
...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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Overview, Ann Durkin Keating(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...Board of Sewerage; and the Union Pacific Railroad Company. Ogden saw the important connection...
...transportation and ran the terminus of the first railroad in Chicago right to the banks of the north...
...and Michigan Canal; Galena and Chicago Union Railroad (the city's first); the City of Chicago (first...
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Union Stock Yard, Dominic A. Pacyga(
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) ...The stockyard owed its origins to innovations in railroad transportation. In turn, direct sales from...
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Rogers Park, Patricia Mooney-Melvin(
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) ...Railway and the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad provided service to downtown Chicago. By the...
...Sheridan Road. When the Northwestern Elevated Railroad opened the Howard Station in 1908, population...
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Slovaks, Emily Brunner(
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) ...Initially, most Slovak men took jobs in railroad yards, steel mills, factories, and stockyards....
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Washington Park, Wallace Best(
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) ...Park is the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad . Low-lying and swampy prior to being dredged...
...of Washington Park was settled by Irish and German railroad and meatpacking workers in the 1860s and...
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Will County, Sarah S. Marcus(
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) ...canal ceased in 1915 owing to competition from railroads and the deeper Chicago Sanitary and Ship...
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Chatham, Wallace Best(
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) ...79th and 95th Streets, the Illinois Central Railroad and the Dan Ryan Expressway , Chatham contains...
...Park Township in 1889, Hungarian and Irish railroad workers inhabited the Dauphin Park subdivision,...
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Douglas, Adrian Capehart(
Authored Entry
) ...both a commuter stop of the Illinois Central Railroad and a growing number of streetcar lines drew a...
...employed in the nearby meatpacking industry, railroad shops, and breweries constructed small balloon...
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Edgewater, Amanda Seligman(
Authored Entry
) ...area. He persuaded the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad to open a stop on Bryn Mawr Avenue and...
...in the creation of the Northwestern Elevated Railroad Company, which in 1908 opened up a connection...
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The Loop, Gerald A. Danzer(
Authored Entry
) ...the metropolis. All of Chicago's nineteenth-century railroad depots were located at the edges of the...
...the commercial district expanded toward the railroad stations, it pushed areas of blight, vice , and...
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Lumber, Theodore J. Karamanski(
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) ...had the right to unload a particular ship. In the Railroad Strike of 1877 , Bohemian lumber shovers...
...the supply than at a central distribution center. Railroad and communication networks which allowed...
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McKinley Park, David M. Solzman(
Authored Entry
) ...in 1848 and the coming of the Chicago & Alton Railroad in 1857 spurred further subdivision of the...
...industries located along the waterways and the railroad. The Union Rolling Mill was founded in the...
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Morgan Park, Ellen Skerrett(
Authored Entry
) ...Although the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad laid tracks through the area in 1852, regular...
...near the main line of the Rock Island railroad. On the other side of the tracks near 117th Street,...
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Near West Side, Myriam Pauillac(
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) ...Community Area 28, 2 miles W of the Loop. is bounded by the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad to the...
...north, the Pennsylvania Railroad to the west, the South Branch of the Chicago River to the east, and...
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North Lawndale, Amanda Seligman(
Authored Entry
) ...5 miles W of the Loop. Today circumscribed by railroad lines on three sides and extending northto...
...extension of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad prompted further settlement in this portion...
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