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Abolitionism, Linda J. Evans(
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) ...took seriously its commitment to Underground Railroad activity assisting fugitive slaves. John...
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Agrarian Movements, Chas. P. Raleigh(
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) ...20 years, Prairie Farmer editorials blamed the railroad monopolies, grain elevator owners, and the...
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Communist Party, Randi Storch(
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) ...metal, and building trades ; printing ; railroads ; and food industries. Through party-organized...
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Air Quality, David Stradling(
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) ...In the early 1900s, a movement to force railroad electrification focused on the Illinois Central's...
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Crerar Library, John, Jane Aikin(
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) ...native New York City in 1862 to establish a railroad supply firm. His will gave the city a portion...
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Crestwood, IL, Larry A. McClellan(
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) ...and the beginnings of small market towns as railroad stops were established. In the early twentieth...
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Deerfield, IL, Thomas A. Auger(
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) ...deer population. The opening of the Milwaukee railroad in 1872 attracted new residents who commuted...
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Elmwood Park, IL, Tina Reithmaier(
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) ...was then known as Orison. The Chicago & Pacific Railroad laid tracks in Leyden Township in 1870. The...
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Fox River Grove, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
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) ...River not far from the Illinois & Wisconsin Railroad station in Cary . Opatrny's son Eman took over...
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Glendale Heights, IL, Jane S. Teague(
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) ...abolitionist , with a station of the Underground Railroad in his home. Prosperous farmland in this...
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Golf, IL, Howard N. Rabinowitz(
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) ...president of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad , took his company's rails from his downtown...
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Hoboes, Chad Heap(
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) ...trains headed to and from the nation's busiest railroad hub. By the 1910s, authorities estimated...
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Homelessness and Shelters, Robert Slayton(
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) ...growth and its position as the nation's railroad hub. Chicago became the central way station for...
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Housing, Mail-Order, Mark S. Harmon(
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) ...catalogs were shipped directly to the buyers by railroad . The mass of materials typically required...
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Millennium Park, Timothy J. Gilfoyle(
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) ...yard and parking lot of the Illinois Central Railroad , and complete the northwest corner of Grant...
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Knights of Labor, Richard Schneirov(
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) ...of Labor spread to Chicago after the 1877 railroad strikes . Initially viewed as an educational and...
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La Grange Park, IL, Sarah S. Marcus(
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) ...incorporated community in Illinois that lacked a railroad station, post office, street signs, parks,...
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North Aurora, IL, Sherry Meyer(
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) ...evolution of local transportation networks. Railroads passed through town in the 1850s, creating job...
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Religious Institutions, Virginia Lieson Brereton(
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) ...as well for work among particular immigrant groups, and the YMCA produced “railroad branches” aimed...
...at teaching railroad employees arithmetic, vocational training, and penmanship. The Women's...
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Rosemont, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
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) ...twenty-first century. The Wisconsin Central Railroad (later the Soo Line) built a line through the...
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