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Chicago and Alton Railroad Shops

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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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Finding Aids

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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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