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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(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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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Burnside, Janice L. Reiff(
Authored Entry
) ...Chicago's community areas, is bounded entirely by railroads —a distinctive and difficult-to-access...
...triangle marked by the Illinois Central Railroad on the west, the Rock Island on the south, and the...
...Not until the 1890s, when the Illinois Central Railroad (IC) began building a roundhouse and repair...
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Montclare, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
Authored Entry
) ...In 1872 Sayre allowed the Chicago & Pacific Railroad Company right-of-way over his property, and...
...over by the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad (CM&SP). As a result, the only form of commuter...
...park was divided down the middle by the railroad tracks that marked the town's southern boundary....
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West Dundee, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
Authored Entry
) ...include structures reported to have provided refuge for slaves on the Underground Railroad ....
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Chinatown, Ying-cheng (Harry) Kiang(
Authored Entry
) ...boundary closely. The Santa Fe Railroad parallels the South Branch of the Chicago River , which...
...its northwest boundary. The Pennsylvania Railroad cuts Chinatown from north to south along Canal...
...transportation lines. The New York Central Railroad and the Dan Ryan Expressway parallel its east...
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West Elsdon, Douglas Knox(
Authored Entry
) ...remnant of an ancient lake. The Grand Trunk Railroad tracks gave definition to the eastern boundary...
...early settlers were German far- mers and Irish railroad workers . The area became part of Chicago...
...the town of Lake in 1889. A small hamlet of railroad workers called Elsdon grew up around car shops...
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McHenry County, Craig L. Pfannkuche(
Authored Entry
) ...to provide a better system for road taxation . The introduction of railroads brought great changes....
...The Chicago & Northwestern Railroad blanketed the county. One line pushed west through Huntley and...
...Communities built in partnership with the railroad such as Harvard, Nunda (later Crystal Lake), and...
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Near South Side, Dennis McClendon(
Authored Entry
) ...Branch of the Chicago River . In the 1850s, railroads entering Chicago established shops and yards...
...Streets. Construction of the South Side Elevated Railroad in 1890–1892 brought rapid transit , and...
...of Progress Exposition , and later the 1948 Railroad Fair. After World War II , Northerly Island was...
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Global Chicago, Michael P. Conzen(
Interpretive Digital Essay
) ...1848, however, was pivotal. The canal and first railroad west brought sudden agricultural bounty to...
...growth, the concentration of long-distance railroads during the 1850s, '60s, and '70s gave the city...
...regional power within the national economy. The railroads permitted Chicago to surpass the longer-...
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Winnetka, IL, Elizabeth S. Fraterrigo(
Authored Entry
) ...of the newly formed Chicago & Milwaukee Railroad , platted three hundred acres in New Trier Township...
...in 1899 of the Chicago & Milwaukee Electric Railroad (later the Chicago, North Shore & Milwaukee)...
...stressed the need for grade separation of the railroad tracks. By 1937, 31 people had been killed at...
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Minooka, IL, Erik Gellman(
Authored Entry
) ...SW of the Loop. Minooka incorporated in 1869 as a thriving town along the Rock Island Railroad ....
...Originally called “the summit” by railroad workers because it represented the highest point along...
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