| 541 |
Chicago's Retail Centers in 1948, (
Map
) ...and the trackside business clusters of the railroad suburbs. The spread of the automobile at first...
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| 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...
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| 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...
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| 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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| 551 |
Galena & Chicago Union Station, c. 1849, Photographer: Unknown(
Historical Source
) ...Chicago's first railroad depot, the Galena & Chicago Union, stood on Kinzie Street just north of the...
...years after 1848. By the early 1850s the railroads had drawn nearly all passenger traffic away from...
...entrepot, and the rapid development of the railroad network and of midwestern farms in the 1850s...
Date Created: 1849,
Date Depicted: 1849
|
| 552 |
The Celebrity of Technology, (
Historical Source
) ...Company arrived with instructions to capture city scenes for the "Erie Railroad Series," part...
...of the railroad's promotional campaign to encourage ridership by showing "novel and interesting...
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| 553 |
Wasteful System in Local Government, 1936, Creator: H. S. Hicks(
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...
Date Created: 1936,
Date Depicted: 1936
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| 554 |
Calumet River Swing Bridge, 1963, Photographer: John McCarthy(
Historical Source
) ...In 1963, this railroad swing bridge over the Calumet River east of Torrence Avenue was damaged by a...
Date Created: 1963,
Date Depicted: 1963
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| 555 |
Mouth of the Calumet River, 1973, Photographer: Chicago Department of Public Works(
Historical Source
) ...above the Calumet River was for many years a railroad swing bridge with a center pier. The center...
...replaced by a vertical lift bridge for the railroad owned by U.S. Steel which operated just north of...
Date Created: 1973,
Date Depicted: 1973
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| 556 |
Map of Pullman Company Rail Network, 1885, Artist: Unknown(
Historical Source
) ...As a manufacturer of passenger and freight railroad cars, the Pullman Company was closely involved �...
...and managerially � with most of the nation's railroads. The company had also begun to expand into...
Date Created: 1885,
Date Depicted: 1885
|
| 557 |
Reproduction of Memory, Page 2, (
Historical Source
) ...See also: Baseball ; Fire of 1871 ; Land Use ; Railroads ; Sports, Industrial League The Electronic...
...in the power of mobility; the Illinois Central Railroad that he helped bring to Chicago brought many...
|
| 558 |
Land Subdivision and Urbanization on Chicago's Northwest Side, (
Map
) ...turning into productive farms served by a new railroad line from Chicago, and a county poor farm...
|
| 559 |
Neighborhood Change: Chicago's Prairie Avenue, 1853-2003, (
Map
) ...spread of manufacturing close to the South Side railroad yards brought warehouses and factories to...
|
| 560 |
Chicago's Prairie Avenue Elite in 1886, (
Map
) ...homes, of George Pullman, manufacturer of luxury railroad cars; Marshall Field, the department store...
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