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Cary, IL, Craig L. Pfannkuche(
Authored Entry
) ...the Loop. In 1853 the Illinois & Wisconsin Railroad began grading a line from Chicago to Janesville,...
...as the Chicago, St. Paul & Fond du Lac, the railroad resumed construction through Crystal Lake to...
...and trains were loaded with gravel to level the railroad right-of-way and fill in the long trestles...
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Edison Park, Ann Durkin Keating(
Authored Entry
) ...various Indian groups to a farming community to a railroad suburb to a Chicago neighborhood. At each...
...by these farmers. After the arrival of the railroad in the early 1850s, developers tried to breathe...
...a volunteer fire company, a hotel , a large railroad depot, and dozens of large houses. Located...
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Harvard, IL, Craig L. Pfannkuche(
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) ...Chemung Township on land that they had purchased without mentioning their railroad affiliation....
...In April 1856, the railroad accepted Ayer's town plat as a station named Harvard....
...Rockford line entered Harvard in 1859, the railroad built engine-handling facilities there. As...
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Infrastructure, Louis P. Cain(
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) ...the Civil War —mud. In time, plank roads, railroads , and interstate highways would be built on the...
...booths proved quite easy. Chicago's first railroad , the Galena & Chicago Union, made its maiden...
...terminus for the most important eastern railroads and the eastern terminus for the most important...
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Rapid Transit System, Ronald Dale Karr(
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) ...New York built the world's first elevated railroad in 1868, but Chicago did not follow until 1892,...
...by 1910; the Metropolitan West Side Elevated Railroad, which began operating electric trains from...
...Douglas Park; and the Northwestern Elevated Railroad, which opened from downtown to Wilson Avenue in...
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Archer Heights, Jonathan J. Keyes(
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) ...Expressway does now; the Chicago & Alton Railroad , which paralleled the canal; and Archer Road were...
...the nineteenth century. Not even the three railroads that encircled it in the 1880s (presently, the...
...of Archer Heights for residential use, while railroads maintained control of most of the north-side...
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Crystal Lake, IL, Craig L. Pfannkuche(
Authored Entry
) ...of the retail center moved away from the railroad. By 2000 the population had grown to 38,000. As...
...residents believed that the Illinois & Wisconsin Railroad would follow the Big Foot Trail through...
...However, without any Crystal Lake investors, the railroad chose a route over a mile to the north....
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Frankfort, IL, Sarah S. Marcus(
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) ...By the second half of the nineteenth century, railroad expansion was transforming the landscape and...
...In 1855, workers for the Michigan Central Railroad laid track through Frankfort Township, linking...
...communities along Hickory Creek with the railroad's main line in Indiana. In the same year, Sherman...
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Early Lakeshore Development, Gwen Hoerr Jordan(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...private industries, most prominently the railroads and steel industries, vied for control of the...
...Lake Michigan ; Waterfront Illinois Central Railroad Tracks north from Harrison Street toward Van...
...Viaduct, 1896 Photographer: Illinois Central Railroad Company Source: Chicago Historical Society (...
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Schererville, IN, Stephen G. McShane(
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) ...Because of the convergence of Indian trails, railroads , and major highways in the Schererville...
...settlers arrived around 1840. Because the first railroad station was located on the John Reeder...
...later the Chicago Great Eastern Ohio (Panhandle) Railroad contracted with him to build railroad beds...
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Chesterton, IN, Margaret D. Doyle(
Authored Entry
) ...with the name of Calumet. The Michigan Southern Railroad ran through the town toward Chicago on land...
...donated by William Thomas II. In succeeding years other railroads crossed the area, and...
...Calumet became a busy railroad center. Railroad construction drew Irish workers in the 1850s,...
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Clarendon Hills, IL, Tom Sterling(
Authored Entry
) ...village along the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad , roughly encompasses the area between Ogden...
...When the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad began service here in 1864, farmers initially used it...
...up by James M. Walker, then president of the railroad, who hoped to develop a commuter suburb. The...
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Flossmoor, IL, John H. Long(
Authored Entry
) ...extent the creation of the Illinois Central Railroad . The town is situated in the Calumet River...
...but the soil proved unsuitable. When the railroad later decided to sell its land, it received an...
...to the site of the proposed course. When the railroad agreed, the investors established the Homewood...
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Grayslake, IL, Craig L. Pfannkuche(
Authored Entry
) ...occurred in the area until the Wisconsin Central Railroad began building a line from Chicago to Fond...
...blocked the right-of-way refused to sell the railroad a strip of land, demanding instead that the...
...Subdividers purchased the farm, sold land to the railroad, and platted a community on the remainder...
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Highland, IN, Jennifer Mrozowski(
Authored Entry
) ...from Dyer to the Little Calumet. In 1883, the Chicago & Atlantic Railroad tracked through the area....
...The railroad surveyors, after surveying miles of swamp, called the sand ridge “Highlands. ” That...
...for the purpose of mail delivery , but the railroads surveyors' choice of Highlands won out. Soon...
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Agriculture, Chas. P. Raleigh(
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) ...Michigan Canal , the construction of railroads , Cyrus McCormick's and Obed Hussey's competitive...
...agricultural city. Development of the refrigerated railroad boxcar, dredging and expansion of the...
...of the I&M Canal in 1848 and the subsequent railroad construction westward from Chicago in the...
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Hampshire, IL, Craig L. Pfannkuche(
Authored Entry
) ...north of the present village, was abandoned in 1874 when the Milwaukee Road Railroad bypassed it....
...Platted and incorporated along the railroad, the village is now in transition from an agricultural...
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Manhattan, IL, Erik Gellman(
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) ...Construction of the Illinois & Michigan Canal after 1836, the Illinois Central Railroad in 1851,...
...and a railroad stop in 1879 drew laborers to Manhattan (especially Irish immigrants). In 1886, the...
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Markham, IL, Dave Bartlett(
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) ...then president of the Illinois Central Railroad . African Americans moved into Markham during the...
...contains the Markham Yards of the Illinois Central Railroad . Interstate 57 traverses the community,...
...Both the Illinois Central and the Rock Island Railroads run near Markham, enabling farmers to ship...
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Iron- and Steelworkers, Jonathan Rees(
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) ...steel producers of old that helped build the railroads, buildings, and automobiles of a bygone era....
...take advantage of the Chicago region's proximity to railroad and barge routes. Other mills that took...
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