| 511 |
Goose Island Residents and Residences, Page 1, Ann Durkin Keating(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...a backdrop of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad and the smokestacks of local industries,...
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| 512 |
Industry, Page 1, Ann Durkin Keating(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...several tanneries, a varnish company, and a railroad. An 1886 Fire Insurance map also shows a...
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| 513 |
Suburbs and Cities as Dual Metropolis, Michael H. Ebner(
Authored Entry
) ...the North Shore, all linked to Chicago by a railroad operating since 1855. The rush-hour commute by...
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| 514 |
Sturges, Buckingham & Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...120-foot elevators at the Illinois Central Railroad depot. During the Civil War, their two elevators...
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| 515 |
Political Culture, Robin Einhorn(
Authored Entry
) ...invest in the transportation links, especially railroad connections, that enabled Chicago to become...
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| 516 |
Chicago's Social Geography, Janice L. Reiff(
Rich Map (Essay)
) ...and the Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy Railroad in Aurora attracted thousands of new employees and...
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| 517 |
Chicago Great Western Railway Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...The Minnesota & Northwestern Railroad Co. began to run trains out of a station in suburban Forest...
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| 518 |
Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railway Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...a new line between Milwaukee and Chicago, the railroad became known as the Chicago, Milwaukee & St....
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| 519 |
Marmon Group Inc., (
Business Dictionary
) ...were the Trans Union Corp. , a lessor of railroad cars; Braniff Airlines; and the Ticketmaster...
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| 520 |
Munger, Wheeler & Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...next to the depot of the Chicago & North Western Railroad. When Wesley Munger died in 1868, his son...
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| 521 |
National Malleable and Steel Castings Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...works, which made metal products for the railroad, farm wagon, and horse-drawn carriage industries....
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Chicago's World—Within a Day's Travel, (
Map
) ...within a day. In 1950, air service had joined railroads to extend 24-hour travel from Chicago (often...
...lake and canal boat, stagecoach, and a single railroad line west of the city. Consequently, the zone...
...local centers within the region. By 1900, railroads had supplanted all other means of fast long-...
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| 523 |
Chicago Surface Lines, (
Business Dictionary
) ...Yerkes lines were the North Chicago Street Railroad Co. and the West Chicago Street Railway Co. ,...
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| 524 |
Interurbans in the Chicago Region, (
Map
) ...created a regional network partially paralleling the heavy railroads. Within two decades, most of...
...to competition from autos and from faster steam railroads forced by state regulations to lower their...
...commuter transport earlier than the steam railroads, which had other operations to subsidize them....
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| 525 |
Duchossois Industries Inc., (
Business Dictionary
) ...Heights in 1917. In 1946, Thrall was a small railroad equipment maker, with about 35 employees and $...
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| 526 |
Hammond (George H.) Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...along the tracks of the Michigan Central Railroad. By 1873, the George H. Hammond Co. was selling $1...
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| 527 |
Growth of the Chicago Metropolitan Area, (
Map
) ...phases. Before 1900, streetcars and commuter railroad service conspired to create a fairly compact...
...small clusters of development around outlying railroad stations. Several outlying satellite cities,...
...Elgin, studded the hinterland. By 1955, the railroad suburbs had proliferated and matured, creating...
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| 528 |
Planning Before the Plan, Carl Smith(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Essay)
) ...the Chicago River in 1803, and the choice by railroads to make Chicago what historian William Cronon...
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| 529 |
General American Transportation Corp., (
Business Dictionary
) ...first companies to lease specialty cars to railroads, Epstein's operation started with only 28 used...
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| 530 |
North Chicago Rolling Mill Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...men and manufactured nearly $700,000 worth of iron railroad rails, the plant was one of the largest...
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