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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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
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) ...that Metra , which directs Chicago metropolitan rail commuter activity, added commuter passenger...
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Schaumburg, IL, David Buisseret(
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) ...came with the automobile, the community now has a rail depot and is a regional public transportation...
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Skokie, IL, David Buisseret(
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) ...village of Niles Center was incorporated. Without rail connections to Chicago, farming remained the...
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Snow Removal, Joel Mendes(
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) ...shovels were attached to urban trains to clear rails and to trucks to remove snow from streets....
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St. Charles, IL, David Buisseret(
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) ...the St. Charles Branch Railroad . But regular rail service did not come until 1871 when the Chicago,...
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Villa Park, IL, Aaron Harwig(
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) ...and subdivided a parcel of land near the rail line into 203 one-acre lots for homes, naming the...
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Berkeley, IL, Patricia Krone Rose(
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) ...interurban ) gave the area its first passenger rail service at a stop called Berkeley. Subdivision...
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Wauconda, IL, Craig L. Pfannkuche(
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) ...Wynn touted the construction of a traction rail line from Palatine to Fox Lake . As grain prices...
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Beverly Shores, IN, Elizabeth A. Patterson(
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) ...is linked to that of the electric interurban rail line initially known as the Chicago, Lake Shore &...
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West Chicago, IL, Jane S. Teague(
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) ...three-stall roundhouse and a mill for repairing rails were added. In 1855, John B. Turner, president...
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World War II, Perry R. Duis(
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) ...personnel who were passing through the city by rail enjoyed the hospitality of the USO, as well as...
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