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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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Sailing and Boating, Geoffrey Baer(
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) ...Before there were airports , expressways , and railroads , Chicago was a water city. The city grew...
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Scots, June Skinner Sawyers(
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) ...Adams Street was a stop on the Underground Railroad ; James MacLagan, pastor of the First Scotch...
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Shedd Aquarium, Dennis A. Meritt, Jr.(
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) ...to 1964), the aquarium pioneered the use of a railroad car to transport fishes and invertebrates...
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Skokie, IL, David Buisseret(
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) ...the Skokie Valley line of the North Shore Railroad (what became the Skokie Swift in 1964). Although...
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Stickney, IL, Ronald S. Vasile(
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) ...The village is named for Alpheus B. Stickney, a railroad executive who played a central role in...
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| 376 |
Subdivisions, Carolyn Loeb(
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) ...from the city core. Beginning in 1848, railroad connections led to new development at stations along...
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Thornton, IL, Dave Bartlett(
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) ...and has an interchange with I-80. The first railroad (later the Chicago & Eastern Illinois, now the...
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Tinley Park, IL, Dave Bartlett(
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) ...in 1850. The Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad arrived in 1852 and became an important asset...
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Bellwood, IL, Patricia Krone Rose(
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) ...south, the Proviso yards of the Union Pacific Railroad to the north, and the suburbs of Maywood to...
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University Park, IL, Larry A. McClellan(
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) ...opened in 1969, and the Illinois Central Railroad made its first commuter extension in 40 years to...
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