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Street Life, Perry R. Duis(
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) ...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(
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) ...and houses on large lots with private wells. While railroad lines in neighboring communities enticed...
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Riverwoods, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
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) ...Chicago via the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad (now Metra ). The first building Gross erected...
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Pullman Strike, Carl Smith(
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) ...although centered in Chicago, crippled railroad traffic nationwide, until the federal government...
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Regional Transportation Authority, David M. Young(
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) ...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(
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) ...engine and as a station on the Underground Railroad , and, later, as a working museum. For decades...
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Skyway, Dennis McClendon(
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) ...to the Pennsylvania and New York Central Railroad embankments, was approved in 1954. Construction...
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North Central College, Margaret L. Frank(
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) ...village of Plainfield remained inaccessible by railroad . North Western College thus moved northeast...
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George Pullman and His Town, Liston E. Leyendecker(
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) ...raiser and mover. He soon began converting railroad chair cars into luxurious sleeping vehicles. His...
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Lake Forest College, Sarah Fenton(
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) ...In 1857, only two years after the completion of railroads connecting Chicago to the string of towns...
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Canaryville, James R. Barrett(
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) ...feeding off stockyard refuse and grain from railroad cars, but the term was also applied to the...
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Company Housing, Anna Holian(
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) ...project of company housing was conceived by railroad car magnate George M. Pullman, who in 1880...
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Eminent Domain, Pierre deVise(
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) ...1890–1911), Chicago v. Illinois Central Railroad (1919), urban renewal on the South and West Sides...
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Hodgkins, IL, Ronald S. Vasile(
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) ...of Hodgkins. In the late 1880s the Santa Fe Railroad came through this area and the Kimball and Cobb...
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"Windy City", Jonathan Boyd(
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) ...of national scope such as the building of railroads and the provision of Civil War matériel. Early...
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Illinois National Guard, Eleanor Hannah(
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) ...new militia just in time to serve during the Railroad Strike of 1877 . Strike service would be the...
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Pullman Inc., Martha T. Briggs. and Cynthia H. Peters(
Business Dictionary
) ...Co. name, was purchased by a group of railroad companies. Pullman Inc. kept Pullman-Standard, which...
...Pullman of Chicago began to remodel passenger coach railroad cars. The Pullman's Palace Car Co. was...
...employees and produced about $14 million worth of railroad cars per year. Ten years later, when the...
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Real Estate, Pierre deVise(
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) ...Michigan Canal , the Galena & Chicago Union Railroad, the Chicago Union Stock Yard , and the...
...facilitated the entry of the Illinois Central Railroad into Chicago and speculated in land in the...
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