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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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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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Work, David Moberg(
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) ...lakes, rivers, and canals, then roads and railroads , which consolidated Chicago's central position...
...in industries such as meatpacking, steel, railroads , and farm implement manufacture were dramatic...
...the broad coordinated networks formed by the railroads, contributed to further changes in management...
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American Car & Foundry Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...and graders. AmericanCar, like many firms in the railroad industry, suffered from the rise of the...
...The firm of Wells, French & Co. , which made railroad cars and bridges, was established in Chicago...
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Pullman, Janice L. Reiff(
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) ...who participated in the turbulent 1877 Railroad Strike , or those he believed to be discouraged and...
...district. The Pullman Car Works produced its last railroad car in 1981. A decade later the state of...
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Roseland, Janice L. Reiff(
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) ...arrived from the east at the Michigan Central Railroad station in nearby Kensington . In 1873, James...
...that was once a stop on the Underground Railroad added whiteness to its list of advantages. Local...
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Beverly, Ellen Skerrett(
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) ...to debate, but in the 1890s, the Rock Island Railroad designated its 91st Street station “Beverly...
...buildings clustered along the Rock Island Railroad tracks that link Beverly to downtown Chicago....
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Chinese, Tracy Steffes(
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) ...jobs in agriculture, mining, small industries, and railroads in order to support families back home....
...With the completion of the transcontinental railroad, which had employed thousands of Chinese...
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Dutch, Jonathan J. Keyes(
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) ...International Harvester, and the Illinois Central Railroad competed for open land and attracted...
...employment in the Pullman works, as well as the railroads , steel plants, and other industries that...
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Antiunionism, David Moberg(
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) ...employers formed associations, such as the railroads' General Managers Association in the 1890s, and...
...called in to suppress major strikes against the railroads in 1877 and against Pullman in 1894. They...
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Manufacturing Climate, Janice L. Reiff(
Rich Map (Essay)
) ...new buildings in and around Chicago. The U.S. railroad network, for which Chicago was unquestionably...
...of agricultural implements also boomed as railroads opened new lands to farmers and homesteaders....
...with 582 employees manufactured and repaired railroad and street cars. Ten years later, 27 firms...
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Unionization, James R. Barrett(
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) ...building construction and maintenance companies, railroads , and a range of manufacturing concerns...
...in violent strikes and riots, as in the 1877 railroad strike . The “Great Upheaval” of the mid-1880s...
...trades , among other craftsmen, and on the railroads, most of the breakthroughs among the unskilled...
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