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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...
461 West Pullman, Janice L. Reiff( Authored Entry )
...of the Illinois Central and Michigan Central Railroads in the 1850s that grew rapidly in the 1880s...
462 Young Men's Christian Association, Paula R. Lupkin( Authored Entry )
...and scope, establishing branch buildings for railroad workers at junctions (beginning 1879), for...
463 Clerical Workers, Lisa Michelle Fine( Authored Entry )
...and women. Some Chicago companies, particularly railroads , attempted to bar women from employment...
464 Albany Park, Timothy B. Neary( Authored Entry )
...Trust and Savings Bank, Northwestern Elevated Railroad owner Clarence Buckingham, and transportation...
465 East Garfield Park, Amanda Seligman( Authored Entry )
...appeal to potential residents. Instead, the railroads that described East Garfield Park's northern,...
466 East Side, Kristina M. Bas and David Bensman( Authored Entry )
...region's natural port and its proximity to railroads influenced many firms to locate in the area....
467 Environmentalism, David Stradling( Authored Entry )
...Smoke League, for example, worked to force railroads to reduce their smoke emissions, and laborers...
468 Golf, Howard N. Rabinowitz( Authored Entry )
...to pursue the game, and its network of commuter railroads provided easy access to the proliferating...
469 Grand Boulevard, Wallace Best( Authored Entry )
...Avenue and the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad tracks to the east and west. Until 1874 when...
470 Law, R. Ben Brown( Authored Entry )
...emerged, and tort law developed in response to railroad accidents. Large firms could meet corporate...

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