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441 Almshouses, (Margaret) Dorsey Phelps( Authored Entry )
...acres with new buildings and a county-constructed railroad station called Dunning, 1883–1910; and,...
442 Coal Mining, Mark R. Wilson( Authored Entry )
...the tracks of the Chicago, Alton & St. Louis Railroad , these mines were well-suited to supply a...
443 Environmental Politics, Harold L. Platt( Authored Entry )
...markets by constructing ship harbors, railroads , canals, telegraphs , and other technologies of a...
444 Gage Park, Clinton E. Stockwell( Authored Entry )
...Bank in 1992. Bordered on three sides by railroads, Gage Park attracted other important employers,...
445 Garfield Ridge, Jonathan J. Keyes( Authored Entry )
...Canal (completed 1848), and the Chicago & Alton Railroad (1850s). William B. Archer, I&M Canal...
446 Guatemalans, Heather McClure and José L. Oliva( Authored Entry )
...Central America created an “ underground railroad ” and relocated Guatemalan refugees from Arizona...
447 Harvey, IL, Joseph C. Bigott( Authored Entry )
...factories in town. The Illinois Central Railroad tracks divided the residential and industrial...
448 Hyde Park, Max Grinnell( Authored Entry )
...Cornell deeded 60 acres to the Illinois Central Railroad in exchange for a train station and the...
449 Irving Park, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry( Authored Entry )
...was so close to the Chicago & North Western railroad , he realized there would be more profit in...
450 Armour Square, David M. Solzman( Authored Entry )
...blocks of housing as the tracks of bordering railroads were elevated. These changes cut off the area...
451 Lake View, Amanda Seligman( Authored Entry )
...land in the eastern sector of the area. New railroad lines prompted development of more residential...
452 Lower West Side, Gabriela F. Arredondo( Authored Entry )
...on the north and west by the Burlington Northern railroad tracks. Though the area remained somewhat...
453 Luxembourgers, Kathleen Neils Conzen( Authored Entry )
...millgates by the 1890s, and near Aurora's railroad shops where they worked from the late 1850s. But...
454 Occupational Safety and Health, Tom Hafen( Authored Entry )
...families. Because of the large concentration of railroads and industrial corporations in Chicago,...
455 Chicago Rapid Transit Co., ( Business Dictionary )
...the Chicago & South Side Rapid Transit Railroad (opened 1892); the Lake Street Elevated Railway...
...Co. (1893); the Metropolitan West Side Elevated Railroad (1895); and...
...the Northwestern Elevated Railroad (1899). These early elevated lines had been led by Chicago...
456 Entertaining Chicagoans, Lewis A. Erenberg( Authored Entry )
...womanhood, the private family farm, and the railroad over primeval nature, wild animals, and savage...
457 Street Railways, David M. Young( Authored Entry )
...in 1852 to haul travelers between the new railroad stations and hotels . The first street railway,...
458 Streets and Highways, David M. Young( Authored Entry )
...the South Branch of the Chicago River and adjacent railroad yards on the South Side . It cost $282.7...
459 Unemployment, Alan Harris Stein( Authored Entry )
...Society . Four years later, during the “great” railroad strike , unemployed workers joined strikers...
460 West Lawn, Douglas Knox( Authored Entry )
...Lawn , from which it is divided by the Grand Trunk Railroad tracks. Developers subdivided the land...

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