Chicago and Alton Railroad Shops

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Articles

Pages from our Past articles written by Bill Kemp

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Community fund drive kept C&A Shops in Bloomington

Local and state governments often offer incentives to keep existing businesses or attract new o...

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“In appearance the grand master suggests the banker or the prosperous businessman,” it was said of Patrick H. Morrissey. “In height he is about 5 feet 10 inches, weighs perhaps 185 pounds, wears a mustache and hair that is reddish in hue, and possesses a pair of blue eyes that can see things and understand.”

Labor leader product of west side railroad shops

Born and raised on Bloomington’s west side, Patrick Henry Morrissey became a national labor lea...

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Biographies

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Cotting, James M.

James M. Cotting was born on March 18, 1825 in North Chatham, New York. He married Katherine M....

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Cotting, Katherine M.J. Vanderpool

James M. Cotting was born on March 18, 1825 in North Chatham, New York. He married Katherine M....

Biography

Hawks, Samuel Lockhart

Samuel Lockhart Hawks, known as “Louis” Hawks, was born in Scotland on March 7, 1832 the son of...

Biography

Jackman, John

John Adams Jackman was born March 22, 1816 in Boscawen, New Hampshire, where his great-grandfat...

Biography

Pike, Alpheus

Alpheus Pike was born to Harrison Wallace Pike and Susan A. Mayberry Pike in Casco, Maine on Au...

Biography

Seibert, Leonard

Leonard Seibert was born on August 18, 1831 in Koenig, a borough of Essen, Germany. He came to ...

Biography

Finding Aids

Archival collection finding aids (full contents of collections available on site)

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Alton Railroad Community Band

The Alton Railroad Community Band was established to boost ticket sales during the Great Depres...

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Chicago & Alton Railroad Miscellaneous

The coming of the Illinois Central and the Chicago and Alton Railroads in the 1850s changed Blo...

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Haxel Railroading

Delmar Haxel, born in Bloomington in 1920, worked for the Illinois Central Gulf Railroad for th...

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Speakers Bureau

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'Forty Acres:' Bloomington’s Irish Railroad Neighborhood

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