| 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
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| 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...
|
| 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
|
| 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...
|
| 561 |
Labor Unrest in Chicago, April 25-May 4, 1886, (
Map
) ...join them. On two separate days, thousands of railroad freight handlers marched for miles from one...
|
| 562 |
Chicago's Lakefront Landfill, (
Map
) ...to the lake, and in 1852 the Illinois Central Railroad was allowed to enter the city on an offshore...
|
| 563 |
Year Page: 1848, Douglas Knox and Michael Conzen(
Year Page
) ...Canal, the inception of the city's first railroad, the first telegraph connection, the founding of...
...the end of 1848 the Galena & Chicago Union Railroad track extended just 10 miles west. Within three...
...weatherarrived.d Background: Chicago's first railroad depot, theGalena & Chicago Union, stood on...
|
| 564 |
Rees & Rucker Map of Chicago and Vicinity, 1849, Compiler: Rees and Rucker; Artist: Wm. Clogher(
Historical Source
) ...this 1849 map marks the route of the first railroad in Chicago, the Galena & Chicago Union (1848),...
Date Created: 1849,
Date Depicted: 1849
|
| 565 |
Calumet River South from 95th Street, 1991, Photographer: John McCarthy(
Historical Source
) ...south from the 95th Street Bridge. Both are railroad bridges. The first is permanently open, while...
Date Created: 1991,
Date Depicted: 1991
|
| 566 |
Pioneer, Photographer: Unknown(
Historical Source
) ...the first leg of the Galena and Chicago Railroad. The locomotive is now part of the collections of...
Date Created: n.d.,
Date Depicted: 1848
|
| 567 |
"Chicago's Place In Industrial America," 1952, Creator: Chicago Plan Commission(
Historical Source
) ...the city's traditionally important industries like railroads and farm equipment began to decline....
Date Created: 1952,
Date Depicted: 1952
|
| 568 |
Chicago's Central Business District and Principal Transportation Lines, 1904, Creator: American Society of Mechanical Engineers(
Historical Source
) ...left. One can readily see the Loop Elevated Railroad (or Union Loop) that defines the downtown to...
...as well as the several scattered passenger railroad stations (and the lines they served) that the...
Date Created: 1904,
Date Depicted: 1904
|
| 569 |
Chicago River Straightening, 1929, Photographer: Chicago Aerial Survey Company(
Historical Source
) ...makes evident how much of the real estate in this area was devoted to railroad tracks and yards....
Date Created: 1929,
Date Depicted: 1929
|
| 570 |
"Typical Goose Island Residence," 1891, Creator: Chicago Times(
Historical Source
) ...a backdrop of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad and the smokestacks of local industries,...
Date Created: 1891,
Date Depicted: 1891
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