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Strikes, Richard Schneirov(
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) ...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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Land Use, Richard D. Mariner(
Authored Entry
) ...eclipsed by the development of more efficient railroads , which added impetus to the following boom....
...warehouses, industries, and housing for canal and railroad workers were located. The “big shoulders”...
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Chicago Harbors, Ann Durkin Keating(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...success of nineteenth-century Chicago solely to the railroads, the river is often overlooked....
...Railroads were certainly key, but Chicago grew as a transshipment point, and its harbor was one of...
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Prairie Avenue, Heidi Pawlowski Carey(
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) ...in the late 1880s. Soot from the nearby railroad was a major nuisance, and an infamous vice district...
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Chicago Defender, Wallace Best(
Authored Entry
) ...to leave this place at once,” wrote a Tennessee railroad worker in 1917. By 1919 the Defender’s...
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Alleys, Michael P. Conzen(
Authored Entry
) ...alleys. In the rest of the city and in some railroad suburbs, however, alleys have survived the new...
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Printing, Paul F. Gehl(
Authored Entry
) ...between 1860 and 1880. From the 1850s onward, railroad printing became important because so many...
...offices in the city. One early specialized railroad printer was Rand McNally & Co . , founded in...
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Grocery Stores and Supermarkets, Paul Gilmore(
Authored Entry
) ...suburbs created by the new street railways and railroads , small family-run stores sprang up to meet...
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Pettibone Mulliken Corp., (
Business Dictionary
) ...manufactured construction, forestry, foundry, railroad, and scrap-processing equipment. It claimed...
...in 1880, this company was a leading manufacturer of railroad track equipment such as such as frogs,...
...crossings, and switches. The company's main railroad equipment plant was on Chicago's West Side. In...
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Built Environment in a Mercantile Metropolis, Ann Durkin Keating and Sarah S. Marcus(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Gallery)
) ...including the Illinois and Michigan Canal, railroads, and harbor, appeared on the landscape in the...
...consistently observed. The Illinois Central Railroad (note the locomotive speeding along the trestle...
...grain to flow from the bins into waiting railroad cars and barges, which then shipped the product to...
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Mexicans, Gabriela F. Arredondo and Derek Vaillant(
Authored Entry
) ...at a time. Many of those who worked on the railroad , the traqueros, lived in boxcars along the...
...primarily in steel, meatpacking , and railroad industries. Mexican life in Chicago transcended the...
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