On Oct. 25, 1848, the Galena and Chicago Union Railroad dispatched a train from a station on Kinzie Street just north of the Chicago River. It was the first railroad in a city that in future decades ...
A new exhibition in Pilsen documents how Mexican and Mexican American workers helped build Chicago’s rail system and lived in boxcar communities. The show traces more than a century of labor history ...
Every week we publish a historic photo highlighting a story from Naperville’s past from the history archives of Naper Settlement. Were it not for a bad decision on the part of city officials some 172 ...
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