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North Chicago Rolling Mill Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...nearly $700,000 worth of iron railroad rails, the plant was one of the largest manufacturing...
...1865, the mill rolled a few experimental steel rails, which may have been the first ever produced in...
...furnace, which allowed it to produce steel rails in huge quantities. At the beginning of the 1880s,...
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Suburbs and Cities as Dual Metropolis, Michael H. Ebner(
Authored Entry
) ...operating since 1855. The rush-hour commute by rail covers 16 miles in 32 minutes. Such places—...
...regrettable than their call for a unified commuter-rail terminal facility. But the deconcentration...
...the reach of the Chicago Transit Authority rail line into the northwest suburbs, with suburban...
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Infrastructure, Louis P. Cain(
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) ...brought all sorts of merchandise from downtown rail yards. The single most important commodity that...
...the city's downtown, much as the harbor and downtown rail terminals. As early as 1911 the idea of a...
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Woodstock, IL, Craig L. Pfannkuche(
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) ...in Woodstock after World War II . Yet, with reliable rail commuter transportation, the area became a...
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Lake Villa, IL, Douglas Knox(
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) ...1996 with a station at Lake Villa. This restored rail passenger service to the village for the first...
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Turn-of-the-Century Industrialization and International Markets, Sarah S. Marcus(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Gallery)
) ...Environment in a Mercantile Metropolis Networks of Rails World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 Turn-...
...sausages, harvesting equipment, lanterns, and steel rails produced in Chicago-area factories reached...
...and Western Avenues took advantage of proximity to rail and water transportation corridors that ran...
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Lake Bluff, IL, Michael H. Ebner(
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) ...first by stagecoach (1836) and then by rail (1855), proved paramount to development. Walter S....
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Burnham Plan, Cynthia R. Field(
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) ...of new transportation elements, from road to river to rail. As a collaborative product, the work is...
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Crete, IL, Larry A. McClellan(
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) ...Crete, connecting to markets in Chicago. With a rail line and established businesses, Crete grew as...
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East Hazel Crest, IL, Larry A. McClellan(
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) ...in nearby industrial areas and the Markham rail yards. The community has become racially diverse...
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Golf, IL, Howard N. Rabinowitz(
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) ...Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad , took his company's rails from his downtown office and arranged to...
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Great Lakes Naval Training Station, Perry R. Duis(
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) ...politicians. Ideally located at the nation's rail hub and near its population center, the camp...
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Gurnee, IL, Mark Howard Long(
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) ...Milwaukee & St. Paul line. The relatively quick rail trip to Chicago encouraged local farmers to...
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Millennium Park, Timothy J. Gilfoyle(
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) ...the second millennium, cover the unsightly former rail yard and parking lot of the Illinois Central...
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Knights of Labor, Richard Schneirov(
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) ...garment sweatshops, and coal, lumber, and rail yards, and more generally among the Irish . Under the...
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Markham, IL, Dave Bartlett(
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) ...enabling farmers to ship their produce by rail. In the early twentieth century, new residents were...
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North Aurora, IL, Sherry Meyer(
Authored Entry
) ...the metro area. Early in the 1900s interurban rail lines connected North Aurora with communities up...
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Connecting Houses to Water Networks, Page 3, Ann Durkin Keating(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...a group of investors subdivided land near the rail stop named Norwood Park. The investors offered...
...systems had emerged to serve settlements along rail lines out from the city center. This 1988...
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Richton Park, IL, Ian McGiver(
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) ...and platted a small agricultural village where the rail line crossed the Sauk Trail. In 1926, the...
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Round Lake Beach, IL, Craig L. Pfannkuche(
Authored Entry
) ...that Metra , which directs Chicago metropolitan rail commuter activity, added commuter passenger...
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