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| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Men standing on the exposed portion of a flooded railroad track as a swiftly moving torrent of water is rushing past. Benham was a "company town" created b... |
| Date: | 10 27 1936 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a construction crew working on Chicago & Northwestern Railroad crossing, showing the W.R. Baker Tavern at 601 E. Wilson Street, and the Pa... |
| Date: | 09 1980 |
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| Description: | View down tracks of a repair crew working on Milwaukee Road tracks, near Rothschild, using a crane to help lift a rail. An unidentified highway bridge over... |
| Date: | 1932 |
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| Description: | Crowd gathered for the milk strike at Stanley. |
| Date: | 09 05 1947 |
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| Description: | The train engineer's view (looking east) of the Illinois Central Railroad crossing at Regent Street, Breeze Terrace, and Little Street, taken one-hundred f... |
| Date: | 11 25 1947 |
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| Description: | Martin W. Torkelson, regional director of the State Planning Board, speaking at a hearing on the possibility of putting West Washington Avenue under the Ch... |
| Date: | 11 25 1947 |
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| Description: | Emerson Ela, attorney, speaking at a hearing on the possibility of putting West Washington Avenue under the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railro... |
| Date: | 11 25 1947 |
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| Description: | San W. Orr, attorney, speaking at a hearing on the possibility of putting West Washington Avenue under the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroa... |
| Date: | 11 27 1949 |
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| Description: | Car wreckage and a Milwaukee Road switch engine are shown at the University Avenue railroad crossing. The four persons in the car were hurt. They were Mr.... |
| Date: | 02 09 1951 |
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| Description: | A group portrait near a railroad crossing of striking workers who hold signs with messages, including: "Higher Wages, Not Higher Prices". |
| Date: | 02 09 1951 |
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| Description: | Striking workers near a railroad crossing march in a circle holding handmade signs. |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | View down tracks towards man standing in front of the Union Depot. There is a "Seeds Feed" sign on a building in the background. In the foreground is a lam... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | View down center of Main Street with cobblestones. There is a railroad crossing in the foreground. Service garages are on the left and right corners. Parke... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | A photographer is walking near railroad tracks at a railroad crossing, with an automobile at the crossing in the background on the right. The photographer ... |
| Date: | 07 1955 |
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| Description: | At the crossing at Monroe and Regent Streets, the flagman activates warning lights before the stopped Illinois-Central train proceeds across the crossing. ... |
| Date: | 07 1955 |
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| Description: | Illinois Central flagman R.D. DeRoche walking along the railroad tracks at the Monroe and Regent Streets crossing ahead of the engine after he activated wa... |
| Date: | 07 1955 |
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| Description: | Brakeman R.D. DeRoche pressing the button to deactivate the warning lights as the Illinois Central train passes the intersection with Monroe and Regent Str... |
| Date: | 07 1955 |
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| Description: | After passing the intersection of Monroe and Regent Streets, the brakeman gets back on the train for the trip to Freeport on the Illinois Central Railroad. |
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