| 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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| 522 |
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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| 531 |
Pinkerton National Detective Agency, (
Business Dictionary
) ...company worked for the Illinois Central and other railroads. By late 1850s, Pinkerton employed 15...
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| 532 |
Advertisement for Pullman Cars on Chicago & North Western, n.d., Creator: Chicago and North Western Railroad(
Historical Source
) ...Creator: Chicago and North Western Railroad...
Date Created: n.d.,
Date Depicted: n.d.
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| 533 |
Chicago's Evolving Economic Geography, (
Map
) ...the Illinois & Michigan Canal and the first railroad tracks laid westward. The commercial heart of...
...to the waterways and the proliferating railroads which crisscrossed the city without hindrance. By...
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| 534 |
The Historic Illinois & Michigan Canal Corridor in 1851, (
Map
) ...1850s. Despite losing much traffic to the railroads after 1855, the canal remained important for...
...for the early growth of Chicago, after which railroads confirmed the city's centrality within the...
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| 535 |
Economic Origins of Metropolitan Chicago Communities, (
Map
) ...heading out of Chicago to the southwest, while communities that started as railroad suburbs line...
...the major commuter railroad corridors. Later automobile-era suburbs fill in many of the interstitial...
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| 536 |
Map of Cook and DuPage, and parts of Kane, Kendall, and Will Counties, 1851, Creator: James H. Rees(
Historical Source
) ...of the Chicago River Only the Galena and Chicago Railroad made its way westward from the City of...
...presaging the much more important role which railroads would play in Chicago's dramatic growth....
...regional development from its earliest days. Without railroads, expressways and individual cities or...
Date Created: 1851,
Date Depicted: 1851
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| 537 |
Union Depot, c.1906, Photographer: Charles R. Clark(
Historical Source
) ...Union Depot railroad station, built in 1881 at Canal and Adams Streets....
Date Created: c.1906,
Date Depicted: c.1906
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| 538 |
Illinois Central Randolph Street Station, 1893, Photographer: Unknown(
Historical Source
) ...Illinois Central Railroad steam locomotives at Randolph Street Station, 1893....
Date Created: 1893,
Date Depicted: 1893
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| 539 |
"Zephyr" Ticket Counter, Union Station, 1943, Photographer: Jack Delano(
Historical Source
) ...Ticket counter for the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad's "Zephyr," Union Station, 1943....
Date Created: 1943,
Date Depicted: 1943
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| 540 |
Portrait of William B. Ogden, Creator: G. P. A. Healy(
Historical Source
) ...and Michigan Canal; Galena and Chicago Union Railroad (the city's first); the City of Chicago (first...
...Board of Sewerage; and the Union Pacific Railroad Company. Ogden saw the important connection...
...transportation and ran the terminus of the first railroad in Chicago right to the banks of the north...
Date Created: 1855,
Date Depicted: 1855
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