| 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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| 541 |
Chicago's Retail Centers in 1948, (
Map
) ...and the trackside business clusters of the railroad suburbs. The spread of the automobile at first...
|
| 542 |
Southern Distribution of the Chicago Defender, 1919, (
Map
) ...this place at once," wrote a Tennessee railroad worker in 1917. By 1919 the Defender's advocacy of...
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| 543 |
Chicago's Rapid Transit Lines, (
Map
) ...Four individual companies built elevated railroads to link outlying city and near-suburban...
|
| 544 |
Chicago's Freight Tunnels, circa 1930, (
Map
) ...furnaces. Numerous connections and sidings at railroad freight houses were used to transfer freight...
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| 545 |
School and Other Special Districts, (
Historical Source
) ...to inequities in taxation, as school districts traversed by railroads could tax local residents at a...
...much lower rate than districts without railroads. Eventually these districts were consolidated into...
|
| 546 |
Michigan Avenue and Congress Street, 1868-1869, Photographer: J. Carbutt(
Historical Source
) ...Street, 1868-1869. Note the Illinois Central Railroad tracks running along a trestle over the...
Date Created: 1868-1869,
Date Depicted: 1868-1869
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| 547 |
Riot at Blue Island, 1894, Artist: Unknown(
Historical Source
) ...that, in addition to 12 persons who died, the railroads lost at least $4,672,916; Pullman workers...
...in wages; and the 100,000 employees on the 24 railroads centering in Chicago lost wages of at least...
Date Created: 1894,
Date Depicted: 1894
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| 548 |
Committee Minutes, 1908, Creator: Merchant's Club(
Historical Source
) ...rooftop space used to prepare the Plan,inviting railroad executives to a consideration of railway...
...Twelfth Street (Roosevelt Road). They also heard a report on how their plans affected the railroads....
Date Created: 1908,
Date Depicted:
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| 549 |
Bird's Eye View of Chicago, 1857, Creator: I. T. Palmatary and Christian Inger(
Historical Source
) ...become Grant Park. The Illinois Central Railroad (note the locomotive speeding along the trestle the...
Date Created: 1857,
Date Depicted: 1857
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| 550 |
Monument to Stephen A. Douglas, 1928, Photographer: Chicago Daily News(
Historical Source
) ...in the power of mobility; the Illinois Central Railroad that he helped bring to Chicago brought many...
Date Created: 1928,
Date Depicted: 1928
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