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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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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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Pingree Grove, IL, Erik Gellman(
Authored Entry
) ...124 in 2000. In the 1870s, the construction of the Chicago & Pacific railroad brought modest growth....
...At the end of the twentieth century the railroad no longer stopped in Pingree Grove, and the brick...
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DuPage County, Steph McGrath(
Authored Entry
) ...significant development in transportation was the construction of railroads , beginning in 1848 with...
...the Galena & Chicago Union Railroad....
...Six railroads and an interurban line would enter DuPage by the early 1900s. Irish, English ,...
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Barrington, IL, Craig L. Pfannkuche(
Authored Entry
) ...control of the Chicago, St. Paul & Fond du Lac Railroad (later the Chicago & North Western Railway)...
...meant improved profits, many area farmers feared the railroad would bring too many saloons and Irish...
...there in 1854. At Campbell's request, the railroad moved the station building to his new community,...
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Washington Heights, Clinton E. Stockwell(
Authored Entry
) ...is bounded by 89th and 107th Streets and two railroad lines at roughly Ashland Boulevard to the west...
...the area was populated mostly by farmers. After the 1860s, railroads dominated the economy of the...
...region, beginning in 1864–1865 when railroad workers temporarily settled in the area. Subdivision...
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Waukegan, IL, Wallace Best(
Authored Entry
) ...to industry, Lake Michigan, and the railroads . Toward the middle of the nineteenth century,...
...stimulated by the construction of the Chicago & Milwaukee Railroad by 1855, which was followed...
...by the Elgin , Joliet & Eastern Railroad systems. These railroads became indispensable to the larger...
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Winfield, IL, Jane S. Teague(
Authored Entry
) ...While along an early stagecoach line and the first railroad out of Chicago, Winfield remained in the...
...The following year, however, it appeared on railroad maps as Winfield. Stagecoach-related business...
...responsible for Winfield's early growth. When a railroad was established in Naperville in 1864, the...
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Blue Island, IL, Martin Tuohy(
Authored Entry
) ...what became the United Brick and Clay Workers Union. Railroads bolstered employment until the 1950s....
...The Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad arrived in 1852; its 1868 brick depot at Vermont Street...
...in use today. Between 1888 and 1893 several belt railroads crossed the southern and western parts of...
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Cicero, IL, Betsy Gurlacz(
Authored Entry
) ...22nd Street). When the Galena & Chicago Union Railroad was built westward from Chicago in 1848,...
...North Western Railway and the Chicago & Alton Railroad companies to establish manufacturing and...
...of the town along the Galena & Chicago Union Railroad. As these communities expanded they began to...
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Dolton, IL, Dave Bartlett(
Authored Entry
) ...on the Calumet River . The coming of the railroads stimulated Dolton's growth. The 1850s began a...
...Irish Catholics who worked in constructing the railroads. From 1866 to 1910 the village was known as...
...an attempt to reduce wages. The mixture of railroads and the Little Calumet River proved to be a...
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Downers Grove, IL, Mark S. Harmon(
Authored Entry
) ...The year before the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad came through town in 1864, Samuel Curtiss...
...Grove. Growth continued near the village's three railroad stations at Main Street, Belmont, and East...
...accelerated Downers Grove's expansion, just as the railroad had done almost a century earlier. The...
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