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Matteson, IL, Ian McGiver(
Authored Entry
) ...is located along the Metra Electric commuter rail line and sits astride Interstate 57 and the...
...40-acre parcel near the intersection of the two rail lines, the village has grown tremendously with...
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Michigan City, IN, Elizabeth A. Patterson(
Authored Entry
) ...grain market for northern Indiana. Several rail lines arrived in the 1850s, bringing their repair...
...died out. The Michigan Central Railroad moved its rail shops at the close of World War I , and the...
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Montgomery, IL, Sherry Meyer(
Authored Entry
) ...doomed Montgomery's reaper plant. Likewise, the rail nexus at Aurora left Montgomery unable to...
...by 1960 it was the largest worldwide. The rails also shipped Montgomery's produce and spring water...
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West Englewood, Franklin Forts(
Authored Entry
) ...Southern & Northern Indiana Railroad began rail service to the region. The Rock Island Railroad and...
...track in the area by the close of the 1850s. The rail stop and the adjacent area of railroad switch...
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Forest Glen, David M. Solzman(
Authored Entry
) ...particularly with the expansion of commuter rail lines. Railroad stops at Forest Glen and Edgebrook...
...Glen had a scattering of industry along the rail tracks and limited commercial facilities near major...
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Naperville, IL, Ann Durkin Keating(
Authored Entry
) ...growth for the next century was tied to this easy rail connection to Chicago. In 1870, North Central...
...Naperville's largest employer, shipped furniture by rail into Chicago and its all-important markets....
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Chicagoland, Jack W. Fuller(
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) ...Michigan, and Iowa), all of which were served by rail delivery of the colonel's newspaper. Later in...
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Pace, David M. Young(
Authored Entry
) ...RTA's suburban operations into bus (Pace) and rail ( Metra ) service. In 1998, Pace operated 232 bus...
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Rogers Park, Patricia Mooney-Melvin(
Authored Entry
) ...Rogers Park and Chicago a new northern boundary. Rail connections between Rogers Park and Chicago...
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West Lawn, Douglas Knox(
Authored Entry
) ...extensive promotion of ChicagoLawn in the 1870s. The rail station at 63rd and Central Park attracted...
...Cup built near Ford City to take advantage of rail access. Richard J. Daley College , a regional...
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Will County, Sarah S. Marcus(
Authored Entry
) ...of Will County—walking paths, wagon roads, canals, rail lines, and highways—now ran within a single,...
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Civil War, Theodore J. Karamanski(
Authored Entry
) ...to provide Union forces with the rolling stock and rails needed to transport troops and supplies....
...The first steel rails made in America came off the North Chicago Rolling Mill in 1865. Although...
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McKinley Park, David M. Solzman(
Authored Entry
) ...spurred further subdivision of the area. The rails amplified the transportation advantages of the...
...of the Chicago River and produced 50 tons of rails per day. Eventually, the firm became part of U.S....
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Built Environment in a Mercantile Metropolis, Ann Durkin Keating and Sarah S. Marcus(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Gallery)
) ...Environment in a Mercantile Metropolis Networks of Rails World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 Turn-...
...environment remained dominated by the structures (rails, waterways, markets, grain elevators) that...
...ICHi-17111) Grain elevators were built near rail stops and barge tie-ups along the Chicago River....
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Economic Geography, Susan E. Hirsch(
Authored Entry
) ...1882. In the long run, Chicago's development as a rail hub was more important for its dominance in...
...Branch. After milling, the lumber was shipped by rail mostly to the west to build farmhouses, barns,...
...Rolling Mill produced the city's first steel rails in 1865 but soon relocated to South Chicago ....
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Literary Images of Chicago, Carlo Rotella(
Authored Entry
) ...infrastructure , indicated here by the converging rail lines that arrange the view. The processes of...
...type of the modern industrial metropolis. The rail lines form the bones and arteries of a growing...
...and representativeness, but also because rail lines run through all of them. Chicago's literature,...
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Inverness, IL, Ronald Martin(
Authored Entry
) ...while Route 14 leads into the city. Metra commuter rail service to downtown Chicago is available in...
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Landscape Design, Kevin Harrington(
Authored Entry
) ...of the city, the elevation and embankment of the vast network of rail traffic in the city....
...The increasing loss of life caused by rail crossings at grade led to the systematic, and still...
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Agriculture, Chas. P. Raleigh(
Authored Entry
) ...innovative sales method: horses brought in by the rail carload were sold individually in a weekly...
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East Dundee, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
Authored Entry
) ...percent white and nearly 4 percent Hispanic. Metra rail service is located south of East Dundee in...
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