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| 1 | Railroads, John C. Hudson(
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) ...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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| 2 | Underground Railroad, Glennette Tilley Turner(
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) ...Underground Railroad...
...As the terminus of most Underground Railroad routes originating in Illinois towns bordering the...
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| 3 | Railroad Stations, Max Grinnell(
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) ...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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| 4 | Railroad Workers, Christopher Thale(
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) ...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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| 5 | Illinois Central Railroad, John P. Hankey(
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) ...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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| 6 | Railroad Strike of 1877, Karen Sawislak(
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) ...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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| 7 | Chicagoans Who Rejected the Railroad, Ann Durkin Keating(
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) ...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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| 8 | Railroad Supply Industry, Mark R. Wilson(
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) ...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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| 9 | Transportation, H. Roger Grant(
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) ...and Chicago retained its status as the American railroad center. Moreover, the city gained the...
...could rightly claim that their city was the railroad mecca of America. Chicago was served by nearly...
...for the early growth of Chicago, after which railroads confirmed the city’s centrality within the...
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| 10 | Metropolitan Growth, Ann Durkin Keating(
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) ...heading out of Chicago to the southwest, while communities that started as railroad suburbs line...
...the major commuter railroad corridors. Later automobile-era suburbs fill in many of the interstitial...
...to water and roads until the advent of the railroad in 1848, and by the 1890s dozens of railroad...
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| 11 | Economic Geography, Susan E. Hirsch(
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) ...city. In 1836 he helped found Chicago's first railroad , the Galena & Chicago Union, to connect the...
...of 1837 halted work on the canal and the railroad. Trade atrophied, and Chicago land values...
...for the city—the canal was completed, the first railroad opened, the telegraph reached town, and the...
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| 12 | Metra, David M. Young(
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) ...the state legislature created Metra to operate the commuter railroad system with RTA subsidies....
...By 1999, it was one of the largest commuter railroad networks in the world....
...Metra, the commuter railroad division of Chicago's Regional Transportation Authority , was created...
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| 13 | Meatpacking, Louise Carroll Wade(
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) ...hampered unionization . Business in the older railroad stockyards and city packinghouses declined...
...Midwestern farmers also raised livestock, and railroads tied Chicago to its Midwestern hinterland...
...on the branches of the Chicago River and the railroad stockyards which shipped cattle. To alleviate...
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| 14 | Interurbans, Ronald Dale Karr(
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) ...was the Chicago, North Shore & Milwaukee Railroad . Constructed in sections from Milwaukee to...
...North Shore line, reached the Loop via an elevated railroad, in this case the Garfield “ L . ” Built...
...south, the Chicago, South Shore & South Bend Railroad holds the distinction of being the nation's...
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| 15 | Innovation, Invention, and Chicago Business, Louis P. Cain(
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) ...of the Illinois & Michigan Canal . He was the president of the Galena & Chicago Union Railroad and...
...several other railroads that became the...
...Chicago & North Western Railroad, and of the National Pacific Railroad Convention held in...
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| 16 | Franklin Park, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
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) ...access to O'Hare Airport cargo terminals, railroad freight terminals, major expressways for routing,...
...By the mid-1870s the Atlantic & Pacific Railroad (Milwaukee Road tracks of the Chicago, Milwaukee,...
...St. Paul & Pacific Railroad) laid tracks and built a station on Elm Street. The Minneapolis, St....
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| 17 | Fuller Park, Clinton E. Stockwell(
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) ...mile strip lies between the Dan Ryan Expressway and the Rock Island Railroad Metra lines to the east...
...and the Chicago & Western Indiana Railroad to the west. The northern and southern borders are...
...lived here, many of them employed either by the railroads or the stockyards. In 1871, a railroad...
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| 18 | West Englewood, Franklin Forts(
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) ...German and Swedish farmers. Development followed as railroads began crisscrossing the area....
...In February 1852 the Michigan Southern & Northern Indiana Railroad began rail service to the region....
...The Rock Island Railroad and the Wabash Railroad also laid track in the area by the close of the...
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| 19 | West Chicago, IL, Jane S. Teague(
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) ...school in continuous operation in the county. As railroad transportation declined, the town changed....
...commercial use, there are few hints of what was once a prominent and prosperous railroad community....
...Illinois community created as the result of the railroads . Chicago's first railroad, the Galena &...
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| 20 | Lake Zurich, IL, Craig L. Pfannkuche(
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) ...and labored in the cause of the Underground Railroad . By 1850, Paine's community numbered no more...
...late 1800s. In 1889, the Elgin, Joliet & Eastern Railroad (EJ&E) built its Chicago bypass line (from...
...through Lake Zurich. Believing that the railroad would bring development, community leaders...
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