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Metropolitan Growth, Ann Durkin Keating(
Authored Entry
) ...heading out of Chicago to the southwest, while communities that started as railroad suburbs line...
...the major commuter railroad corridors. Later automobile-era suburbs fill in many of the interstitial...
...to water and roads until the advent of the railroad in 1848, and by the 1890s dozens of railroad...
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Economic Geography, Susan E. Hirsch(
Authored Entry
) ...city. In 1836 he helped found Chicago's first railroad , the Galena & Chicago Union, to connect the...
...of 1837 halted work on the canal and the railroad. Trade atrophied, and Chicago land values...
...for the city—the canal was completed, the first railroad opened, the telegraph reached town, and the...
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Metra, David M. Young(
Authored Entry
) ...the state legislature created Metra to operate the commuter railroad system with RTA subsidies....
...By 1999, it was one of the largest commuter railroad networks in the world....
...Metra, the commuter railroad division of Chicago's Regional Transportation Authority , was created...
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Networks of Rails, Sarah S. Marcus(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Gallery)
) ...and managerially--with most of the nation's railroads. The company had also begun to expand into...
...Invention, Chicago Business ; Pullman Inc. ; Railroads Sarah S. Marcus The Electronic Encyclopedia...
...became the nation's most important rail center. Railroads and related manufacturers centered their...
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Meatpacking, Louise Carroll Wade(
Authored Entry
) ...hampered unionization . Business in the older railroad stockyards and city packinghouses declined...
...Midwestern farmers also raised livestock, and railroads tied Chicago to its Midwestern hinterland...
...on the branches of the Chicago River and the railroad stockyards which shipped cattle. To alleviate...
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Interurbans, Ronald Dale Karr(
Authored Entry
) ...was the Chicago, North Shore & Milwaukee Railroad . Constructed in sections from Milwaukee to...
...North Shore line, reached the Loop via an elevated railroad, in this case the Garfield “ L . ” Built...
...south, the Chicago, South Shore & South Bend Railroad holds the distinction of being the nation's...
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Innovation, Invention, and Chicago Business, Louis P. Cain(
Authored Entry
) ...of the Illinois & Michigan Canal . He was the president of the Galena & Chicago Union Railroad and...
...several other railroads that became the...
...Chicago & North Western Railroad, and of the National Pacific Railroad Convention held in...
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Franklin Park, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
Authored Entry
) ...access to O'Hare Airport cargo terminals, railroad freight terminals, major expressways for routing,...
...By the mid-1870s the Atlantic & Pacific Railroad (Milwaukee Road tracks of the Chicago, Milwaukee,...
...St. Paul & Pacific Railroad) laid tracks and built a station on Elm Street. The Minneapolis, St....
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Fuller Park, Clinton E. Stockwell(
Authored Entry
) ...mile strip lies between the Dan Ryan Expressway and the Rock Island Railroad Metra lines to the east...
...and the Chicago & Western Indiana Railroad to the west. The northern and southern borders are...
...lived here, many of them employed either by the railroads or the stockyards. In 1871, a railroad...
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West Englewood, Franklin Forts(
Authored Entry
) ...German and Swedish farmers. Development followed as railroads began crisscrossing the area....
...In February 1852 the Michigan Southern & Northern Indiana Railroad began rail service to the region....
...The Rock Island Railroad and the Wabash Railroad also laid track in the area by the close of the...
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West Chicago, IL, Jane S. Teague(
Authored Entry
) ...school in continuous operation in the county. As railroad transportation declined, the town changed....
...commercial use, there are few hints of what was once a prominent and prosperous railroad community....
...Illinois community created as the result of the railroads . Chicago's first railroad, the Galena &...
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Lake Zurich, IL, Craig L. Pfannkuche(
Authored Entry
) ...and labored in the cause of the Underground Railroad . By 1850, Paine's community numbered no more...
...late 1800s. In 1889, the Elgin, Joliet & Eastern Railroad (EJ&E) built its Chicago bypass line (from...
...through Lake Zurich. Believing that the railroad would bring development, community leaders...
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Mount Prospect, IL, David MacLaren(
Authored Entry
) ...community. By 1854, the Illinois & Wisconsin Railroad (later renamed the Chicago & North Western)...
...to broader markets moved to the neighboring railroad towns of Arlington Heights and Des Plaines ....
...residential subdivision on farmland south of the railroad. Eggleston named the area Mount Prospect...
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Kane County, Craig L. Pfannkuche(
Authored Entry
) ...spurred William Butler Ogden to drive his Galena & Chicago Union Railroad westward from Chicago....
...In 1849 the railroad linked Elgin to Chicago....
...In 1853 the Galena Railroad crossed the Fox River at Geneva and pushed through Blackberry (now...
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Commuting, Michael P. Conzen(
Authored Entry
) ...the office. FIGURE 1 In 1856, Paul Cornell initiated the railroad suburb in greater Chicago, when...
...he persuaded the Illinois Central Railroad to operate local passenger service to Hyde Park , six...
...emerging commuter train service, offered on railroads which by the 1880s fanned out in 15 different...
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Dyer, IN, Jennifer Mrozowski(
Authored Entry
) ...town's namesake. That year, the Michigan Central Railroad established a station at Dyer and built a...
...door and blind factory, a distilling plant, and other stores were located near the railroad station....
...The Louisville & New Albany Railroad ran through the town in 1882, giving Dyer its second railroad...
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New Lenox, IL, Sarah S. Marcus(
Authored Entry
) ...area. In the 1850s, the Chicago & Rock Island Railroad (later the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific)...
...the rail line. Recognizing the importance of the railroad to the future of the community, residents...
...current superintendent of the Rock Island Railroad. Soon thereafter, however, the village adopted...
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Hermosa, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
Authored Entry
) ...Community Area 20, 6 miles NW of the Loop. Hermosa is defined by railroad tracks and embankments....
...The Chicago & North Western Railroad line forms its western boundary east of Cicero Avenue while the...
...two lines of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad (CM&SP). To the north, six blocks of Belmont...
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Global Chicago, Michael P. Conzen(
Authored Entry
) ...1848, however, was pivotal. The canal and first railroad west brought sudden agricultural bounty to...
...growth, the concentration of long-distance railroads during the 1850s, '60s, and '70s gave the city...
...regional power within the national economy. The railroads permitted Chicago to surpass the longer-...
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Round Lake, IL, Craig L. Pfannkuche(
Authored Entry
) ...officials of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad extended a branch line from their Milwaukee–...
...Hainesville such as Amarias M. White knew that a railroad station would increase property values....
...In a classic ploy, White offered the railroad free land in exchange for a station. He also drew up a...
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