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Pingree Grove, IL, Erik Gellman(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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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Hanover Park, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
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) ...far as Galena. In 1872 the Chicago & Pacific Railroad (later the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul) laid...
...as new homes were built in Bartlett's subdivision between the railroad tracks and Ontarioville Road....
...The little railroad stop became a connection to the larger world, with service extending to Omaha,...
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Hillside, IL, Patricia Krone Rose(
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) ...sections, the expressway (and earlier the railroads ) contributed considerably to Hillside's...
...Accessible from a station on the Illinois Central Railroad and from a spur of the Chicago, Aurora &...
...adopting its name from the Illinois Central Railroad stop, which was called Hillside because the...
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Hobart, IN, Elin B. Christianson(
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) ...Old Ridge Road), it was the construction of the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne & Chicago Railroad (later...
...the Pennsylvania Railroad) in 1858 that transformed the settlement into a center forshipping...
...were built, enhancing Hobart's position as a railroad hub. Brickmaking was Hobart's most important...
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Palos Park, IL, Betsy Gurlacz(
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) ...to the west of the Palos Park area. The first railroad came through in 1883 along the route of the...
...than all the villagers combined. In 1913 the railroad route was straightened, shifting slightly to...
...the Southwest Highway opened along the old railroad right-of-way and improved access to the area. A...
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Avalon Park, Wallace Best(
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) ...on the southern edge, and the Illinois Central Railroad to the west. A 30-acre park by the same name...
...early attempts at permanent settlement, railroad workers of German and Irish descent began to reside...
...of the community by the late 1880s. In addition to railroad workers, skilled mechanics, many of them...
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Shoreline Erosion, Karen M. Rodriguez(
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) ...To accommodate the Illinois Central Railroad , breakwaters were built and the lake filled in,...
...a center of commerce required port facilities and railroads to be constructed along the lakefront....
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Tunnels, Dennis McClendon(
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) ...downtown streets once carried freight from railroad terminals, packages from department stores ,...
...enough to carry a narrow-gauge (two-foot) electric railroad. Freight service began in 1906, and the...
...largely complete by 1909. Shipments arriving at railroad freight houses were reloaded on the small...
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Belmont Cragin, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
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) ...11 acres, and the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad built a station at Leclaire Avenue to...
...schoolhouses, and a Congregational church. Railroads drew more factories and workers to the area,...
...a plant on 17 acres adjacent to the Northwestern railroad line, which further spurred manufacturing...
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Bridges, Dennis McClendon(
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) ...in 1894 for the Metropolitan West Side Elevated Railroad and nearby Van Buren Street crossings. This...
...bridge and the now- inoperable “Eight-Track” railroad bridges near Western Avenue. Newer examples...
...Chicago. Inoperable swing bridges survive on two railroads over the Sanitary and Ship Canal, as does...
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Joliet, IL, Robert E. Sterling(
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) ...Michigan Canal (1848), and the Rock Island Railroad (1852), which ran through the business district....
...Today Joliet is served by several railroads, as well as Interstate Highways 55 and 80, which...
...quarries were shipping over three thousand railroad carloads of stone per month to Chicago and other...
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