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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(
Authored Entry
) ...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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Lake Forest, IL, Michael H. Ebner(
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) ...beyond Chicago's reach, but starting in 1855 railroads enabled daily commutation. Presbyterians...
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Banking, Commercial, Larry E. Schweikart(
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) ...Ogden and other influential Chicago leaders in railroads , industry, and real estate. The appearance...
...a syndicate of many institutions, to build railroads or other capital-intensive enterprises. After...
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Iron and Steel, David Bensman and Mark R. Wilson(
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) ...area were mills that produced rails for the railroads . The local pioneer in this field was Eber B....
...quantities of iron and steel products to the railroads and companies that built skyscrapers and...
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Set Design, Robert R. Boyle(
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) ...maximum of one dimension was imposed by the railroad baggage cars used to transport scenery. An...
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Batavia, IL, Marilyn Robinson(
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) ...Irish , and Germans already there. Three railroads served Batavia's citizens and industries. In the...
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Taxis, Liveries, and Limousines, Joshua M. Lupkin(
Authored Entry
) ...Transportation Company was organized to cater to railroad passengers. A short-lived electric cab...
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Toll Roads, David M. Young(
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) ...put out of business within a few years by the railroads . The idea lay dormant until the growth of...
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Wood Dale, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
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) ...their own farms. When the Chicago & Pacific Railroad came through the area in 1873, farmer Frederick...
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Bronzeville, Dempsey J. Travis(
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) ...Cottage Grove on the east and the Rock Island Railroad on the west. Many citizens of color resented...
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Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, Eric R. Smith(
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) ...within the AFL. In 1978, the decline of the railroad industry led the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car...
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