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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...
471 Logan Square, Elizabeth A. Patterson( Authored Entry )
...south and west of the Chicago & North Western Railroad's new Maplewood station at Diversey Avenue,...
472 Near North Side, Amanda Seligman( Authored Entry )
...Ogden's decision to bring the city's first railroad there in 1848 drove them northward along the...
473 Norwegians, Odd S. Lovoll( Authored Entry )
...in 1850. The building of warehouses, railroads , and factories, added to the unsavory conditions,...
474 Automobile Manufacturing, David M. Young( Authored Entry )
...the twentieth century. The fact that the city was a railroad center enabled customers to travel to...
475 Antecedents and Inspirations, Carl Smith( Interpretive Digital Essay (Essay) )
...1852 ordinance granting the Illinois Central Railroad the rights to a 300-foot-wide strip of land (...
...which opened in 2004. ) Illinois Central Railroad depot, 1858 Nineteenth-century maps and drawings...
...garbage, and general debris, along with railroad tracks and service buildings. Beyond this disarray,...
476 Restaurants, Bruce Kraig( Authored Entry )
...began in 1858 at Chicago's Rock Island Railroad Station. By 1900 the name “cafeteria” had spread...
477 Agricultural Machinery Industry, Fred Carstensen( Authored Entry )
...lay to the West and that Chicago, with the railroad to Galena nearly complete, the Illinois &...
478 Haymarket and May Day, Christopher Thale( Authored Entry )
...join them. On two separate days, thousands of railroad freight handlers marched for miles from one...
479 Landscape, Gerald A. Danzer( Authored Entry )
...the Sanitary and Ship Canal , and several railroads . The old bed of Lake Chicago, flat, low-lying,...
480 Mail Delivery, Richard R. John( Authored Entry )
...sorting from distribution centers to moving railroad cars, an innovation known as “railway mail. ”...

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