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Hazel Crest, IL, Larry A. McClellan(
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) ...in the 1920s and '30s, the IC built the Markham rail freight yards to the north of Hazel Crest....
...yard workers moved to Hazel Crest. With the rail yards, commuter access, and local enterprises,...
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New Lenox, IL, Sarah S. Marcus(
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) ...the site of the existing settlement along the rail line. Recognizing the importance of the railroad...
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Near South Side, Dennis McClendon(
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) ...Dearborn Park , a neighborhood built on the defunct rail yards between State and Clark Streets south...
...mixed-use development on 72 acres of former rail yards and air rights east of Indiana Avenue between...
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Planning Chicago, Carl Abbott(
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) ...that embodied social purpose. As the city's new rail lines fanned outward over marshes and prairies...
...and public gathering places—all with a direct rail commute to the center of Chicago. They were...
...in 1905. The company prepared land, assured rail service, put in utilities, graded streets, built...
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Regional Transportation Authority, David M. Young(
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) ...systems in the world, including a 769-mile rail system with 205 million passenger trips a year and a...
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Great Migration, James Grossman(
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) ...from the South generally followed water and rail routes. Chicago’s popularity as a destination...
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Bellwood, IL, Patricia Krone Rose(
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) ...east and Hillside and Berkeley to the west. With rail and highway transportation readily available,...
...the village along the Indiana Harbor Belt tracks. Rail passenger service, available via the Chicago,...
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Hickory Hills, IL, Larry A. McClellan(
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) ...area north of the Calumet feeder canal, lacked rail service. The natural richness of the area had...
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Interurbans, Ronald Dale Karr(
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) ...it was powered by an electrified third rail. When the Garfield “L” was removed to construct the...
...areas and to each other. As a form of cheap “light rail” transport, this created a regional network...
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La Grange, IL, Sarah S. Marcus(
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) ...the mid-nineteenth century, the expansion of the rail system around Chicago laid the framework for a...
...and churches, contributing to the construction of a rail depot, and laying out a street plan that...
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Matteson, IL, Ian McGiver(
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) ...is located along the Metra Electric commuter rail line and sits astride Interstate 57 and the...
...40-acre parcel near the intersection of the two rail lines, the village has grown tremendously with...
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Michigan City, IN, Elizabeth A. Patterson(
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) ...grain market for northern Indiana. Several rail lines arrived in the 1850s, bringing their repair...
...died out. The Michigan Central Railroad moved its rail shops at the close of World War I , and the...
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Montgomery, IL, Sherry Meyer(
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) ...doomed Montgomery's reaper plant. Likewise, the rail nexus at Aurora left Montgomery unable to...
...by 1960 it was the largest worldwide. The rails also shipped Montgomery's produce and spring water...
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West Englewood, Franklin Forts(
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) ...Southern & Northern Indiana Railroad began rail service to the region. The Rock Island Railroad and...
...track in the area by the close of the 1850s. The rail stop and the adjacent area of railroad switch...
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Forest Glen, David M. Solzman(
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) ...particularly with the expansion of commuter rail lines. Railroad stops at Forest Glen and Edgebrook...
...Glen had a scattering of industry along the rail tracks and limited commercial facilities near major...
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Naperville, IL, Ann Durkin Keating(
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) ...growth for the next century was tied to this easy rail connection to Chicago. In 1870, North Central...
...Naperville's largest employer, shipped furniture by rail into Chicago and its all-important markets....
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Chicagoland, Jack W. Fuller(
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) ...Michigan, and Iowa), all of which were served by rail delivery of the colonel's newspaper. Later in...
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Pace, David M. Young(
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) ...RTA's suburban operations into bus (Pace) and rail ( Metra ) service. In 1998, Pace operated 232 bus...
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Rogers Park, Patricia Mooney-Melvin(
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) ...Rogers Park and Chicago a new northern boundary. Rail connections between Rogers Park and Chicago...
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West Lawn, Douglas Knox(
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) ...extensive promotion of ChicagoLawn in the 1870s. The rail station at 63rd and Central Park attracted...
...Cup built near Ford City to take advantage of rail access. Richard J. Daley College , a regional...
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