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Clearing, Clinton E. Stockwell(
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) ...Stickney , president of the Chicago Great Western Railroad , laid out a plan in 1888 for a one-mile...
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Clinics and Dispensaries, Paul A. Buelow(
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) ...Companies such as the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad established their own facilities for...
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Community Areas, Amanda Seligman(
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) ...physical barriers such as rivers, parks, and railroads created “natural areas” within cities. These...
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Darien, IL, Aaron Harwig(
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) ...The region's distance from the Burlington Northern Railroad , which ran north through Downers Grove,...
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Algonquin, IL, Craig L. Pfannkuche(
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) ...dairy farmers along the Fox River Valley Railroad (Chicago & North Western Railway), which entered...
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Des Plaines River, David M. Solzman(
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) ...River . Today, if one stands near the Santa Fe Railroad bridge near Stony Ford, it is possible to...
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DuSable Museum, Amina J. Dickerson(
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) ...been a boardinghouse for African American railroad workers. During the early 1960s the fledgling...
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Forest Park, IL, Jean Louise Guarino(
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) ...dwellers. In 1856, the Chicago & Galena Union Railroad opened a shop and roundhouse at today's Des...
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Fox Lake, IL, Craig L. Pfannkuche(
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) ...for vacationing Chicagoans in the 1890s. The railroad entered the chain of lakes in 1901 when the...
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Glencoe, IL, Adam H. Stewart(
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) ...completed a decade earlier. As president of the railroad company, Gurnee made a practice of buying...
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Glenview, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
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) ...Northfield. In 1872 the Chicago & Milwaukee Railroad laid a single track to the area and named the...
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Highwood, IL, Lisa Cervac(
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) ...construction workers on the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad. Later area workers became the domestic...
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Justice, IL, Betsy Gurlacz(
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) ...La Grange Road, and the canal, as well as a railroad running along the south side of the canal....
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Lake Villa, IL, Douglas Knox(
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) ...Lake Villa was a station on the Wisconsin Central Railroad line built in 1887, providing convenient...
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Laundries and Laundering, Arwen Mohun(
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) ...was located at the terminus of a number of railroads . Chicago laundries handled the washing of...
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Libertyville, IL, Craig L. Pfannkuche(
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) ...spur line into town in 1880. The resulting railroad boom led Libertyville leaders to incorporate...
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Lisle, IL, Patricia K. Kummer(
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) ...In 1864, the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad extended its tracks through Lisle. Educational...
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Lyons, IL, Ronald S. Vasile(
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) ...joined with other towns in petitioning for a railroad to be built through their towns. By the early...
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Macedonians, Gregory Michaelidis(
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) ...to St. Louis, or to the Western states to find railroad and mining work . Prior to the formation of...
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Mapping Chicago, Robert W. Karrow, Jr.(
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) ...of the City of Chicago (1872), shows streets , railroads , property lines, and lot numbers in all...
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