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Railroads, John C. Hudson(
Authored Entry
) ...Railroads...
...Chicago is the most important railroad center in North America. More lines of track radiate in more...
...freight traffic between the nation's major railroads and it is the hub of Amtrak, the intercity rail...
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Underground Railroad, Glennette Tilley Turner(
Authored Entry
) ...Underground Railroad...
...As the terminus of most Underground Railroad routes originating in Illinois towns bordering the...
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Railroad Stations, Max Grinnell(
Authored Entry
) ...Railroad Stations...
...the stations in Highwood and Mokena . Where railroad stations had once been lively centers of...
...Built by the Galena & Chicago Union Railroad in 1848, the city's first railroad depot was of a...
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Railroad Workers, Christopher Thale(
Authored Entry
) ...Railroad Workers...
...the company had stopped operations. Chicago's railroad workers' neighborhood communities broke up,...
...Chicagoans began working on the railroad in 1848, when building began on the Galena & Chicago Union...
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Illinois Central Railroad, John P. Hankey(
Authored Entry
) ...Illinois Central Railroad...
...York's Prospect Group. The Illinois Central Railroad profoundly affected the economic and physical...
...in 1851 the state chartered the Illinois Central Railroad (IC) and selected a consortium of Eastern...
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Railroad Strike of 1877, Karen Sawislak(
Authored Entry
) ...Railroad Strike of 1877...
...nationwide uprising of workers. On July 16, railroad workers in Martinsburg, West Virginia, walked...
...leveled by their employer, the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. Strikes to protest cutbacks in the midst...
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Chicagoans Who Rejected the Railroad, Ann Durkin Keating(
Authored Entry
) ...Chicagoans Who Rejected the Railroad...
...courting the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad when it ran through the area in the 1860s....
...unwilling to entertain a shift from a canal to a railroad in 1834, when they wrote to the governor...
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Implementation Map (Consolidated Railroad Station), (
Interpretive Digital Essay (Special Feature)
) ...Implementation Map (Consolidated Railroad Station)...
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Railroad Supply Industry, Mark R. Wilson(
Authored Entry
) ...Railroad Supply Industry...
...selling about $240 million a year worth of railroad equipment such as wheels and track. Meanwhile,...
...age, when Chicago was at the center of the railroad equipment and supply business, then one of the...
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Chicago, Aurora & Elgin Railroad Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...Chicago, Aurora & Elgin Railroad Co...
...suburbs created the Aurora, Elgin & Chicago Railroad. By 1909, the line had four routes between the...
...its name became the Chicago, Aurora & Elgin Railroad Co. Owned briefly by Samuel Insull's Middle...
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Chicago, Burlington, & Quincy Railroad Co., H. Roger Grant.(
Business Dictionary
) ...Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Co...
...Northern, which became the second-largest railroad system in the United States. In 1995, the...
...In 1855, the name of the Chicago & Aurora Railroad, which included several of the area's early rail...
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Chicago, South Shore & South Bend Railroad Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...Chicago, South Shore & South Bend Railroad Co...
...trains, ridership declined. But the South Shore, unlike many other regional railroads, survived. In...
...it was purchased by the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad; in the 1970s, the state of Indiana prevented the...
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Illinois Central Railroad (Corporate History), (
Business Dictionary
) ...Illinois Central Railroad...
...service to Amtrak; the following year, it merged with the Gulf, Mobile & Ohio Railroad to become the...
...Illinois Central Gulf Railroad, which had nearly 10,000 miles of track. During the 1980s, it sold...
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Chicago, Rock Island, & Pacific Railroad Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad Co...
...leading to unsuccessful attempts to sell the railroad. Following a strike by its clerks in 1979, the...
...bankruptcy court ordered the liqui dation of the railroad. The few remaining assets when the company...
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Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad Brochure, Creator: Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad(
Historical Source
) ...Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad Brochure...
...Creator: Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad...
Date Created: ,
Date Depicted:
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Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Brochure, n.d., Creator: Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad(
Historical Source
) ...Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Brochure, n.d....
...Creator: Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad...
...Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad advertisement as the "trans-continental route of America,"...
Date Created: ,
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Chicago & Alton Railroad Brochure, 1882, Creator: Chicago and Alton Railroad(
Historical Source
) ...Chicago & Alton Railroad Brochure, 1882...
...Creator: Chicago and Alton Railroad...
...Brochure and timetable for Chicago & Alton Railroad, promoting tourist travel west from Chicago to...
Date Created: 1882,
Date Depicted: 1882
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Illinois Central Railroad Station, 1964, Photographer: Unknown(
Historical Source
) ...Illinois Central Railroad Station, 1964...
...Illinois Central Railroad station, 1964....
Date Created: 1964,
Date Depicted: 1964
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Illinois Central Railroad Slip, 1895, Creator: Western Insurance Survey Co.(
Historical Source
) ...Illinois Central Railroad Slip, 1895...
...The connection between railroads and the Chicago harbor was a close one....
...The Galena and Chicago Railroad, the first into the city, laid tracks right to the west bank of the...
Date Created: 1895,
Date Depicted: 1895
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Illinois Central Railroad Depot, 1858, Photographer: Alexander Hesler(
Historical Source
) ...Illinois Central Railroad Depot, 1858...
Date Created: 1858,
Date Depicted: 1858
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