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"Around the World" via the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad, 1870, Creator: Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad(
Historical Source
) ...Around the World" via the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad, 1870...
...Creator: Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad...
...Chicago, Rock Island, and Pacific Railroad poster advertising "Around the World" travel via railway...
Date Created: 1870,
Date Depicted: 1870
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View of Lakefront, with Illinois Central Railroad Yards in Foreground, n.d., Creator: Unknown(
Historical Source
) ...View of Lakefront, with Illinois Central Railroad Yards in Foreground, n.d....
...century, despite the prominent presence of the railroad, Chicago promoted its Lake Front Park as a...
...promotional photograph, the park is barely visible behind the railroad cars along the shoreline....
Date Created: n.d.,
Date Depicted: n.d.
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Bird's-Eye View of Elevated Railroads, Parks and Boulevards, 1910, Publisher: McComber Directory Company(
Historical Source
) ...Bird's-Eye View of Elevated Railroads, Parks and Boulevards, 1910...
Date Created: 1910,
Date Depicted: 1910
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Marshfield Avenue Station of the Metropolitan West Side Elevated Railroad, Creator: Unknown(
Historical Source
) ...Marshfield Avenue Station of the Metropolitan West Side Elevated Railroad...
...main line of the Metropolitan West Side Elevated Railroad before it split into its three branches:...
Date Created: n.d.,
Date Depicted: n.d.
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Chicago's Railroad Pattern in 1950, (
Map
) ...Chicago's Railroad Pattern in 1950...
...area built to exchange freight between the trunk railroads and to service metropolitan industry....
...in 1950 was at the height of its power as the railroad center of the United States. Fully 37 long-...
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Railroads and Chicago's Loop, circa 1930, (
Map
) ...Railroads and Chicago's Loop, circa 1930...
...developed an extraordinary concentration of railroad terminals and related warehousing districts...
...warehouse quarters (purple) adjacent to the railroad stations, yards, and riverfront and lakeside...
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Railroad Commuting to Chicago in 1934, (
Map
) ...Railroad Commuting to Chicago in 1934...
...within the core of the industrial-era city, railroads served that function further out and pioneered...
...daily trains from Hyde Park in 1856, Chicago's railroads developed a complex octopus-like network of...
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Illinois Central Railroad Links to Chicago, (
Map
) ...Illinois Central Railroad Links to Chicago...
...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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Development of Railroad Lines from Chicago, (
Table
) ...Development of Railroad Lines from Chicago...
...Chicago built in 1886. Wabash Wabash Railroad (1877) St. Louis — Kansas City 1886 Under Jay...
...agriculture. C&EI Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad (1877) St. Louis, Evansville 1871 Served...
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Transportation, H. Roger Grant(
Authored Entry
) ...and Chicago retained its status as the American railroad center. Moreover, the city gained the...
...could rightly claim that their city was the railroad mecca of America. Chicago was served by nearly...
...for the early growth of Chicago, after which railroads confirmed the city’s centrality within the...
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Metropolitan Growth, Ann Durkin Keating(
Authored Entry
) ...heading out of Chicago to the southwest, while communities that started as railroad suburbs line...
...the major commuter railroad corridors. Later automobile-era suburbs fill in many of the interstitial...
...to water and roads until the advent of the railroad in 1848, and by the 1890s dozens of railroad...
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Economic Geography, Susan E. Hirsch(
Authored Entry
) ...city. In 1836 he helped found Chicago's first railroad , the Galena & Chicago Union, to connect the...
...of 1837 halted work on the canal and the railroad. Trade atrophied, and Chicago land values...
...for the city—the canal was completed, the first railroad opened, the telegraph reached town, and the...
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Metra, David M. Young(
Authored Entry
) ...the state legislature created Metra to operate the commuter railroad system with RTA subsidies....
...By 1999, it was one of the largest commuter railroad networks in the world....
...Metra, the commuter railroad division of Chicago's Regional Transportation Authority , was created...
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Networks of Rails, Sarah S. Marcus(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Gallery)
) ...and managerially--with most of the nation's railroads. The company had also begun to expand into...
...Invention, Chicago Business ; Pullman Inc. ; Railroads Sarah S. Marcus The Electronic Encyclopedia...
...became the nation's most important rail center. Railroads and related manufacturers centered their...
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Meatpacking, Louise Carroll Wade(
Authored Entry
) ...hampered unionization . Business in the older railroad stockyards and city packinghouses declined...
...Midwestern farmers also raised livestock, and railroads tied Chicago to its Midwestern hinterland...
...on the branches of the Chicago River and the railroad stockyards which shipped cattle. To alleviate...
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Interurbans, Ronald Dale Karr(
Authored Entry
) ...was the Chicago, North Shore & Milwaukee Railroad . Constructed in sections from Milwaukee to...
...North Shore line, reached the Loop via an elevated railroad, in this case the Garfield “ L . ” Built...
...south, the Chicago, South Shore & South Bend Railroad holds the distinction of being the nation's...
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Innovation, Invention, and Chicago Business, Louis P. Cain(
Authored Entry
) ...of the Illinois & Michigan Canal . He was the president of the Galena & Chicago Union Railroad and...
...several other railroads that became the...
...Chicago & North Western Railroad, and of the National Pacific Railroad Convention held in...
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Franklin Park, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
Authored Entry
) ...access to O'Hare Airport cargo terminals, railroad freight terminals, major expressways for routing,...
...By the mid-1870s the Atlantic & Pacific Railroad (Milwaukee Road tracks of the Chicago, Milwaukee,...
...St. Paul & Pacific Railroad) laid tracks and built a station on Elm Street. The Minneapolis, St....
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Fuller Park, Clinton E. Stockwell(
Authored Entry
) ...mile strip lies between the Dan Ryan Expressway and the Rock Island Railroad Metra lines to the east...
...and the Chicago & Western Indiana Railroad to the west. The northern and southern borders are...
...lived here, many of them employed either by the railroads or the stockyards. In 1871, a railroad...
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West Englewood, Franklin Forts(
Authored Entry
) ...German and Swedish farmers. Development followed as railroads began crisscrossing the area....
...In February 1852 the Michigan Southern & Northern Indiana Railroad began rail service to the region....
...The Rock Island Railroad and the Wabash Railroad also laid track in the area by the close of the...
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