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The Plan Comes Together, Carl Smith(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Essay)
) ...also included retailer Marshall Field and railroad-car manufacturer George Pullman , among others....
...Root’s commissions included park buildings, railroad terminals, banks, and hotels, not to mention...
...was general manager (soon president) of the Wabash Railroad, and he later served as Chairman of the...
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Wholesaling, Mark R. Wilson(
Authored Entry
) ...boosted even further by the completion of major railroad links to the city during the 1850s. By the...
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Union Stock Yard & Transit Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...War by a group of Chicago meatpackers and railroad executives that included Rosell Hough and John...
...beginning of the 1920s. Just as America's railroad system had helped to centralize the meatpacking...
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Main Channel Construction, Ann Durkin Keating(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...spike thatcompleted the transcontinental railroad in 1869. See also: Public Works, Federal Funding...
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Labor Unrest in Chicago, April 25-May 4, 1886, Janice L. Reiff(
Rich Map (Essay)
) ...join them. On two separate days, thousands of railroad freight handlers marched for miles from one...
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Neighborhood Change, 1853-2003 (Essay), Map Author: Michael P. Conzen and (Research assistance: Douglas Knox, Dennis McClendon)(
Rich Map (Essay)
) ...spread of manufacturing close to the South Side railroad yards brought warehouses and factories to...
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Retail Geography, Max Grinnell(
Authored Entry
) ...and the trackside business clusters of the railroad suburbs. The spread of the automobile at first...
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Irish, Ellen Skerrett(
Authored Entry
) ...1836–1848) and later on the lumber wharves, railroads , stockyards, and steel mills—contributed to...
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Hospitals, Paul A. Buelow(
Authored Entry
) ...lay boards, and even companies such as railroads . Especially in a city filling with immigrants, a...
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Connecting Houses to Water Networks, Page 3, Ann Durkin Keating(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...Park, 1870 Source: The Newberry Library A railroad ran near the property owned by the Noble family...
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Armour, Dole & Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...the depot of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad with a capacity of 850,000 bushels. After the...
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Religion, Chicago's Influence on, Martin E. Marty(
Authored Entry
) ...promote the former. Once lake traffic and railroads poised Chicago as a place for the crisscrossing...
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Social Services, Joanne L. Goodwin(
Authored Entry
) ...or ethnic group. i3277 Chicago & Northwestern Railroad pamphlet cover, ca. 1911. Source: Chicago...
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Police, Christopher Thale(
Authored Entry
) ...to restore order on such notable occasions as the Railroad Strike of 1877 and the Haymarket Affair (...
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Literary Images of Chicago, Carlo Rotella(
Authored Entry
) ...like the city itself, took shape around railroads; trains run through its cities of feeling,...
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Water in Chicago, Ann Keating(
Interpretive Digital Essay
) ...Louisiana Territory. While Chicago's role as a railroad hub became a dominant factor by the second...
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Basic Bridge Types, Page 1, Ann Durkin Keating(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...Historical Society (ICHi-37369) In 1963, this railroad swing bridge over the Calumet River east of...
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Leisure, Steven A. Riess(
Authored Entry
) ...cultural traditions and values. i3330 Chicago's railroads expanded leisure space for Chicagoans and...
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Religious Geography, Lowell W. Livezey and Mark Bouman(
Authored Entry
) ...industrial districts served by ports and railroads (although the advent of air transportation and...
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Governing the Metropolis, Anthony Orum(
Authored Entry
) ...continued over the next few decades. Where railroads had once fed outward residential development...
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