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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. ”...
481 Seminaries, Martin E. Marty( Authored Entry )
...to everywhere. ” At junctures of shipping and railroad lines, it could send priests and ministers to...
482 Urban Renewal, Arnold R. Hirsch( Authored Entry )
...from Michigan Avenue west to the Pennsylvania Railroad, their efforts—along with those of their Loop...
483 Epidemics, Walter Nugent( Authored Entry )
...rubbish daily accumulating. ” But tugboats and railroads belched smoke, the stockyards still stank,...
484 Landscape Design, Kevin Harrington( Authored Entry )
...city neighborhoods, to the conscious design of railroad-served suburbs such as Lake Forest and...
485 Literary Careers, Timothy B. Spears( Authored Entry )
...in printing technology, and an expansive railroad system had paved the way for a national literary...
486 Fiction, Bill Savage( Authored Entry )
...spaces— streets , alleys , parks, beaches, railroads , expressways , theaters , saloons , salons,...
487 Mapping Chicago, Old and New, ( Interpretive Digital Essay (Gallery) )
...the branches of the Chicago River) are in red, railroad properties and lines (which take up a great...
488 Rand McNally & Co., ( Business Dictionary )
...Co. was created in 1868, when it began to publish business directories and railroad guides. After...
...publishing its first map in an 1872 railroad guide, the company became a pioneer in the field of...
489 First National Park in the Middle West, Sarah S. Marcus( Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay) )
...See Also: Chicago, South Shore & South Bend Railroad Co. ; Interurbans ; Lake Michigan ; Michigan...
490 Italians, Rudolph J. Vecoli( Authored Entry )
...and Sicily. Drawn to Chicago's market for railroad workers , these laborers were enrolled in work...

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