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West Chicago, IL, Jane S. Teague(
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) ...school in continuous operation in the county. As railroad transportation declined, the town changed....
...commercial use, there are few hints of what was once a prominent and prosperous railroad community....
...Illinois community created as the result of the railroads . Chicago's first railroad, the Galena &...
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Lake Zurich, IL, Craig L. Pfannkuche(
Authored Entry
) ...and labored in the cause of the Underground Railroad . By 1850, Paine's community numbered no more...
...late 1800s. In 1889, the Elgin, Joliet & Eastern Railroad (EJ&E) built its Chicago bypass line (from...
...through Lake Zurich. Believing that the railroad would bring development, community leaders...
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Mount Prospect, IL, David MacLaren(
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) ...community. By 1854, the Illinois & Wisconsin Railroad (later renamed the Chicago & North Western)...
...to broader markets moved to the neighboring railroad towns of Arlington Heights and Des Plaines ....
...residential subdivision on farmland south of the railroad. Eggleston named the area Mount Prospect...
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Kane County, Craig L. Pfannkuche(
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) ...spurred William Butler Ogden to drive his Galena & Chicago Union Railroad westward from Chicago....
...In 1849 the railroad linked Elgin to Chicago....
...In 1853 the Galena Railroad crossed the Fox River at Geneva and pushed through Blackberry (now...
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Commuting, Michael P. Conzen(
Authored Entry
) ...the office. FIGURE 1 In 1856, Paul Cornell initiated the railroad suburb in greater Chicago, when...
...he persuaded the Illinois Central Railroad to operate local passenger service to Hyde Park , six...
...emerging commuter train service, offered on railroads which by the 1880s fanned out in 15 different...
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Dyer, IN, Jennifer Mrozowski(
Authored Entry
) ...town's namesake. That year, the Michigan Central Railroad established a station at Dyer and built a...
...door and blind factory, a distilling plant, and other stores were located near the railroad station....
...The Louisville & New Albany Railroad ran through the town in 1882, giving Dyer its second railroad...
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New Lenox, IL, Sarah S. Marcus(
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) ...area. In the 1850s, the Chicago & Rock Island Railroad (later the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific)...
...the rail line. Recognizing the importance of the railroad to the future of the community, residents...
...current superintendent of the Rock Island Railroad. Soon thereafter, however, the village adopted...
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Hermosa, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
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) ...Community Area 20, 6 miles NW of the Loop. Hermosa is defined by railroad tracks and embankments....
...The Chicago & North Western Railroad line forms its western boundary east of Cicero Avenue while the...
...two lines of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad (CM&SP). To the north, six blocks of Belmont...
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Global Chicago, Michael P. Conzen(
Authored Entry
) ...1848, however, was pivotal. The canal and first railroad west brought sudden agricultural bounty to...
...growth, the concentration of long-distance railroads during the 1850s, '60s, and '70s gave the city...
...regional power within the national economy. The railroads permitted Chicago to surpass the longer-...
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Round Lake, IL, Craig L. Pfannkuche(
Authored Entry
) ...officials of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad extended a branch line from their Milwaukee–...
...Hainesville such as Amarias M. White knew that a railroad station would increase property values....
...In a classic ploy, White offered the railroad free land in exchange for a station. He also drew up a...
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Cary, IL, Craig L. Pfannkuche(
Authored Entry
) ...the Loop. In 1853 the Illinois & Wisconsin Railroad began grading a line from Chicago to Janesville,...
...as the Chicago, St. Paul & Fond du Lac, the railroad resumed construction through Crystal Lake to...
...and trains were loaded with gravel to level the railroad right-of-way and fill in the long trestles...
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Edison Park, Ann Durkin Keating(
Authored Entry
) ...various Indian groups to a farming community to a railroad suburb to a Chicago neighborhood. At each...
...by these farmers. After the arrival of the railroad in the early 1850s, developers tried to breathe...
...a volunteer fire company, a hotel , a large railroad depot, and dozens of large houses. Located...
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Harvard, IL, Craig L. Pfannkuche(
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) ...Chemung Township on land that they had purchased without mentioning their railroad affiliation....
...In April 1856, the railroad accepted Ayer's town plat as a station named Harvard....
...Rockford line entered Harvard in 1859, the railroad built engine-handling facilities there. As...
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Infrastructure, Louis P. Cain(
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) ...the Civil War —mud. In time, plank roads, railroads , and interstate highways would be built on the...
...booths proved quite easy. Chicago's first railroad , the Galena & Chicago Union, made its maiden...
...terminus for the most important eastern railroads and the eastern terminus for the most important...
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Rapid Transit System, Ronald Dale Karr(
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) ...New York built the world's first elevated railroad in 1868, but Chicago did not follow until 1892,...
...by 1910; the Metropolitan West Side Elevated Railroad, which began operating electric trains from...
...Douglas Park; and the Northwestern Elevated Railroad, which opened from downtown to Wilson Avenue in...
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Archer Heights, Jonathan J. Keyes(
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) ...Expressway does now; the Chicago & Alton Railroad , which paralleled the canal; and Archer Road were...
...the nineteenth century. Not even the three railroads that encircled it in the 1880s (presently, the...
...of Archer Heights for residential use, while railroads maintained control of most of the north-side...
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Crystal Lake, IL, Craig L. Pfannkuche(
Authored Entry
) ...of the retail center moved away from the railroad. By 2000 the population had grown to 38,000. As...
...residents believed that the Illinois & Wisconsin Railroad would follow the Big Foot Trail through...
...However, without any Crystal Lake investors, the railroad chose a route over a mile to the north....
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Frankfort, IL, Sarah S. Marcus(
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) ...By the second half of the nineteenth century, railroad expansion was transforming the landscape and...
...In 1855, workers for the Michigan Central Railroad laid track through Frankfort Township, linking...
...communities along Hickory Creek with the railroad's main line in Indiana. In the same year, Sherman...
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Early Lakeshore Development, Gwen Hoerr Jordan(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...private industries, most prominently the railroads and steel industries, vied for control of the...
...Lake Michigan ; Waterfront Illinois Central Railroad Tracks north from Harrison Street toward Van...
...Viaduct, 1896 Photographer: Illinois Central Railroad Company Source: Chicago Historical Society (...
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Schererville, IN, Stephen G. McShane(
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) ...Because of the convergence of Indian trails, railroads , and major highways in the Schererville...
...settlers arrived around 1840. Because the first railroad station was located on the John Reeder...
...later the Chicago Great Eastern Ohio (Panhandle) Railroad contracted with him to build railroad beds...
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