Soon, next year we are told, the heretofore hidden history of Illinois’ Underground Railroad will begin to be assembled, documented, recorded and made public. And it only took 200 years. Soon, we are ...
CHICAGO - When Illinois state Sen. Napoleon Harris (15th District) was a boy, he would play near the Little Calumet River, a few blocks from his house on 133rd Street, throwing rocks in the river and ...
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Rock Island Rocket passenger trains
Find out which of the Rock Island Rocket passenger trains held the fitting “Rocket” name and where they went into the history books.
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Americans heard the first rumble of a diesel locomotive trekking across the country in May 1936, when the Santa Fe Railroad’s Super Chief passenger train began operating between Los Angeles and ...
Colophon: Neely Printing Company, Inc., Chicago. Contents Chicago Railroad Fair celebrating 100 years of railroad progress, 1848-1948 -- Chicago Railroad Fair presents "Wheels a-rolling": a pageant ...
Centennial International Exhibition, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (1876) -- National Exposition of Railway Appliances, Chicago, Illinois (1883) -- World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, Illinois (1893) ...
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