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| 1 | Chicago's Railroad Pattern in 1950, (
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) ...Chicago's Railroad Pattern in 1950...
...area built to exchange freight between the trunk railroads and to service metropolitan industry....
...in 1950 was at the height of its power as the railroad center of the United States. Fully 37 long-...
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| 2 | Railroads and Chicago's Loop, circa 1930, (
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) ...Railroads and Chicago's Loop, circa 1930...
...developed an extraordinary concentration of railroad terminals and related warehousing districts...
...warehouse quarters (purple) adjacent to the railroad stations, yards, and riverfront and lakeside...
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| 3 | Railroad Commuting to Chicago in 1934, (
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) ...Railroad Commuting to Chicago in 1934...
...within the core of the industrial-era city, railroads served that function further out and pioneered...
...daily trains from Hyde Park in 1856, Chicago's railroads developed a complex octopus-like network of...
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| 4 | Illinois Central Railroad Links to Chicago, (
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) ...Illinois Central Railroad Links to Chicago...
...in part on the breadth of the Illinois Central Railroad network. By the time World War I opened...
...black population was most concentrated. Other railroad lines also offered access to Chicago from...
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| 5 | Chicago's World—Within a Day's Travel, (
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) ...within a day. In 1950, air service had joined railroads to extend 24-hour travel from Chicago (often...
...lake and canal boat, stagecoach, and a single railroad line west of the city. Consequently, the zone...
...local centers within the region. By 1900, railroads had supplanted all other means of fast long-...
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| 6 | Interurbans in the Chicago Region, (
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) ...created a regional network partially paralleling the heavy railroads. Within two decades, most of...
...to competition from autos and from faster steam railroads forced by state regulations to lower their...
...commuter transport earlier than the steam railroads, which had other operations to subsidize them....
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| 7 | Growth of the Chicago Metropolitan Area, (
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) ...phases. Before 1900, streetcars and commuter railroad service conspired to create a fairly compact...
...small clusters of development around outlying railroad stations. Several outlying satellite cities,...
...Elgin, studded the hinterland. By 1955, the railroad suburbs had proliferated and matured, creating...
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| 8 | Chicago's Evolving Economic Geography, (
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) ...the Illinois & Michigan Canal and the first railroad tracks laid westward. The commercial heart of...
...to the waterways and the proliferating railroads which crisscrossed the city without hindrance. By...
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| 9 | The Historic Illinois & Michigan Canal Corridor in 1851, (
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) ...1850s. Despite losing much traffic to the railroads after 1855, the canal remained important for...
...for the early growth of Chicago, after which railroads confirmed the city's centrality within the...
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| 10 | Economic Origins of Metropolitan Chicago Communities, (
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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...
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| 11 | Chicago's Retail Centers in 1948, (
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) ...and the trackside business clusters of the railroad suburbs. The spread of the automobile at first...
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| 12 | Southern Distribution of the Chicago Defender, 1919, (
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) ...this place at once," wrote a Tennessee railroad worker in 1917. By 1919 the Defender's advocacy of...
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| 13 | Chicago's Rapid Transit Lines, (
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) ...Four individual companies built elevated railroads to link outlying city and near-suburban...
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| 14 | Chicago's Freight Tunnels, circa 1930, (
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) ...furnaces. Numerous connections and sidings at railroad freight houses were used to transfer freight...
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| 15 | Land Subdivision and Urbanization on Chicago's Northwest Side, (
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) ...turning into productive farms served by a new railroad line from Chicago, and a county poor farm...
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| 16 | Neighborhood Change: Chicago's Prairie Avenue, 1853-2003, (
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) ...spread of manufacturing close to the South Side railroad yards brought warehouses and factories to...
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| 17 | Chicago's Prairie Avenue Elite in 1886, (
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) ...homes, of George Pullman, manufacturer of luxury railroad cars; Marshall Field, the department store...
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| 18 | Labor Unrest in Chicago, April 25-May 4, 1886, (
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) ...join them. On two separate days, thousands of railroad freight handlers marched for miles from one...
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| 19 | Chicago's Lakefront Landfill, (
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) ...to the lake, and in 1852 the Illinois Central Railroad was allowed to enter the city on an offshore...
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