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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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McHenry, IL, John D. Schroeder(
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) ...was able to secure the route of the Fox Valley Railroad (afterward a branch of the Chicago & North...
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Merrillville, IN, Stephen G. McShane(
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) ...factory, and the California Exchange Hotel. Railroads pushed through Merrillville in 1876 (later the...
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Merrionette Park, IL, Larry A. McClellan(
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) ...with communities that started as market towns, railroad suburbs, or satellite industrial cities,...
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Midway Airport, Derek Vaillant(
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) ...court case ordered the Chicago & Western Indiana Railroad to reroute its tracks to permit new runway...
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Montgomery, IL, Sherry Meyer(
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) ...in 1880, when the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad constructed a station for livestock en route...
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Motoring, James Akerman(
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) ...the city's suburbs to expand away from their railroad-oriented cores, increasing suburban dependence...
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Ashburn, Sherry Meyer(
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) ...greater Ashburn began with the coming of the railroads , just after the area was annexed to Chicago...
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Northlake, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
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) ...The housing complex was sandwiched between two railroad yards on its northern and southern edges....
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Aurora, IL, Catherine Bruck(
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) ...In 1856 the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad located its railcar construction and repair shops...
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Oak Brook, IL, Margaret Franson Pruter(
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) ...maintained a way station on the Underground Railroad in the gristmill of Frederick Graue on Salt...
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