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Work, David Moberg(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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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Strikes, Richard Schneirov(
Authored Entry
) ...workers struck again as part of a nationwide railroad strike . Though lacking unions, thousands of...
...at a standstill, a federal court granted the railroads an injunction declaring the strike illegal,...
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Lake County, IN, Joseph C. Bigott(
Authored Entry
) ...the nineteenth century. After 1850, the railroads established various stations that provided farmers...
...Point lacked a rail outlet until 1865. The railroads spurred industrial development among the sand...
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Oak Park, IL, Tina Reithmaier and Camille Henderson Zorich(
Authored Entry
) ...populated when the Galena & Chicago Union Railroad laid tracks parallel to the stagecoach route in...
...Kettlestrings and subdivided the area near the railroad station. The Cicero Water, Gas, and Electric...
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Austrians, Philip V. Bohlman(
Authored Entry
) ...most Burgenlanders worked in the stockyards, for railroads , or in related industries, such as in...
...took shape, roughly stretching along the railroad lines paralleling what is today the corridor of...
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Philip Armour and the Packing Industry, Louise Carroll Wade(
Authored Entry
) ...offices across the country, and refrigerated railroad cars to deliver chilled, fresh beef. Like...
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Northwest Industries Inc., (
Business Dictionary
) ...but in 1991 it went bankrupt and was dismantled. See also Chicago & North Western Railroad Co....
...Ben Heineman as president. After returning the railroad to profitability, Heineman created a holding...
...around the country, Heineman sold the railroad. Unlike IC Industries, another conglomerate born out...
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Calumet Harbor, Page 1, Ann Durkin Keating(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...many of the industries which once lined the railroad and slips of the Calumet Region have closed...
...a lighthouse, breakwater, and dredging. Nearby railroads fostered both industry and trade, as the...
...the Calumet River, as well as adjacent railroads, provided excellent transportation for industry and...
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Grain Trade, Page 1, Ann Durkin Keating(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...the Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul Railroad of which he was a director and large stockholder....
...in 1887 by the Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul Railroad (of which Armour was an major investor) to...
...hinterland. See also: Commodities Markets ; Railroads ; Goose Island Armour Elevator "B" Goose...
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The Chicago Region and Its Global Models, Sarah S. Marcus(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Gallery)
) ...Chicago Region and Its Global Models Because railroads were such an integral part of the growth of...
...Source: Chicago Historical Society (ICHi-37396) Railroads ran out from Chicago's center to a growing...
...industrial cities. See also: Planning Chicago ; Railroads ; Riverside, IL ; Subdivisions ; Suburbs...
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Book Arts, Paul F. Gehl(
Authored Entry
) ...that concentrated on advertising job work, railroad tickets and timetables, and theater printing....
...trade magazine and directory publishing, and railroads in the decades after the fire created so...
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