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| 1 | 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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| 2 | 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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| 3 | Chicago, South Shore & South Bend Railroad Co., (
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) ...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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| 4 | Illinois Central Railroad (Corporate History), (
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) ...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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| 5 | Chicago, Rock Island, & Pacific Railroad Co., (
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) ...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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| 6 | Chicago & North Western Railway Co., (
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) ...Northwest Industries; four years later, the railroad was spun off and sold to its employees,...
...Western Transportation Co. In 1986, when the railroad's annual revenues were nearly $1 billion, it...
...It finally ceased to exist as an independent railroad in 1995, when it was bought by another old...
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| 7 | IC Industries Inc., (
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) ...Minneapolis but maintained most of its operations in Chicago. See also Illinois Central Railroad ....
...holding company for the Illinois Central Railroad. In 1965, the company's annual revenues approached...
...Foundry), a manufacturer of automobile and railroad products that had been employing hundreds of...
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| 8 | American Car & Foundry Co., (
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) ...and graders. AmericanCar, like many firms in the railroad industry, suffered from the rise of the...
...The firm of Wells, French & Co. , which made railroad cars and bridges, was established in Chicago...
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| 9 | Northwest Industries Inc., (
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) ...but in 1991 it went bankrupt and was dismantled. See also Chicago & North Western Railroad Co....
...Ben Heineman as president. After returning the railroad to profitability, Heineman created a holding...
...around the country, Heineman sold the railroad. Unlike IC Industries, another conglomerate born out...
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| 10 | Pettibone Mulliken Corp., (
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) ...manufactured construction, forestry, foundry, railroad, and scrap-processing equipment. It claimed...
...in 1880, this company was a leading manufacturer of railroad track equipment such as such as frogs,...
...crossings, and switches. The company's main railroad equipment plant was on Chicago's West Side. In...
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| 11 | Pullman Inc., Martha T. Briggs. and Cynthia H. Peters(
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) ...Co. name, was purchased by a group of railroad companies. Pullman Inc. kept Pullman-Standard, which...
...Pullman of Chicago began to remodel passenger coach railroad cars. The Pullman's Palace Car Co. was...
...employees and produced about $14 million worth of railroad cars per year. Ten years later, when the...
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| 12 | Chicago Rapid Transit Co., (
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) ...the Chicago & South Side Rapid Transit Railroad (opened 1892); the Lake Street Elevated Railway...
...Co. (1893); the Metropolitan West Side Elevated Railroad (1895); and...
...the Northwestern Elevated Railroad (1899). These early elevated lines had been led by Chicago...
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| 13 | Rand McNally & Co., (
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) ...Co. was created in 1868, when it began to publish business directories and railroad guides. After...
...publishing its first map in an 1872 railroad guide, the company became a pioneer in the field of...
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| 14 | Union Stock Yard & Transit Co., (
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) ...War by a group of Chicago meatpackers and railroad executives that included Rosell Hough and John...
...beginning of the 1920s. Just as America's railroad system had helped to centralize the meatpacking...
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| 15 | Armour, Dole & Co., (
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) ...the depot of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad with a capacity of 850,000 bushels. After the...
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| 16 | Sturges, Buckingham & Co., (
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) ...120-foot elevators at the Illinois Central Railroad depot. During the Civil War, their two elevators...
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| 17 | Chicago Great Western Railway Co., (
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) ...The Minnesota & Northwestern Railroad Co. began to run trains out of a station in suburban Forest...
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| 18 | Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railway Co., (
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) ...a new line between Milwaukee and Chicago, the railroad became known as the Chicago, Milwaukee & St....
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| 19 | Marmon Group Inc., (
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) ...were the Trans Union Corp. , a lessor of railroad cars; Braniff Airlines; and the Ticketmaster...
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| 20 | Munger, Wheeler & Co., (
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) ...next to the depot of the Chicago & North Western Railroad. When Wesley Munger died in 1868, his son...
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