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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(
Authored Entry
) ...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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Street Life, Perry R. Duis(
Authored Entry
) ...Some were impromptu. For instance, before railroads provided all-weather links to the outside world,...
...included travelers moving between hotels and railroad stations , as well as commuters who rushed to...
...At the same time, illustrations of the bloody railroad strikes of 1877 , the 1886 Haymarket Affair,...
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Prospect Heights, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
Authored Entry
) ...and houses on large lots with private wells. While railroad lines in neighboring communities enticed...
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Riverwoods, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
Authored Entry
) ...and Deerfield Road. In 1885 the Wisconsin Central Railroad added a spur line with a final stop near...
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Round Lake Beach, IL, Craig L. Pfannkuche(
Authored Entry
) ...had been built up since the coming of the railroad in 1901. The lake's reputation as a resort area...
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Brookfield, IL, Emily Clark(
Authored Entry
) ...Chicago via the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad (now Metra ). The first building Gross erected...
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Pullman Strike, Carl Smith(
Authored Entry
) ...although centered in Chicago, crippled railroad traffic nationwide, until the federal government...
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Regional Transportation Authority, David M. Young(
Authored Entry
) ...created in 1945, as well as the commuter railroad system ( Metra ), and the suburban bus network (...
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Salt Creek, D. Bradford Hunt(
Authored Entry
) ...engine and as a station on the Underground Railroad , and, later, as a working museum. For decades...
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Skyway, Dennis McClendon(
Authored Entry
) ...to the Pennsylvania and New York Central Railroad embankments, was approved in 1954. Construction...
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North Central College, Margaret L. Frank(
Authored Entry
) ...village of Plainfield remained inaccessible by railroad . North Western College thus moved northeast...
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