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Articles

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‘Trolley Days’ raised funds for the underprivileged
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Twin Cities once hosted own Chautauqua
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Railroaders’ library once west side hub
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Before railroads, stage lines crisscrossed the prairies
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President Johnson receives ‘stern rebuke’ from locals in 1866
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Beloved ‘Rags’ rode the rails to local fame
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West side Subway Club earned notoriety in late ’50s
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Railroad shops center of deadly 1920 typhoid outbreak
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Circus train wreck takes life of local aerialist Jennie Ward
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Pullman Strike left Twin Cities at standstill
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Bloomington inescapably linked to Springfield Race Riot

Biographies

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Hall, Helen Ross
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Fell, Jesse Weldon
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Price, John Joseph
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Law, David D.
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Jackman, Sarah Farnum Sargent
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Graves, Linus
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Hawks, Samuel Lockhart
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Moore, Asa Harvey
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Jackman, John

Farming in the Great Corn Belt

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1853 to 1899: Labor

Grain Elevators

Finding Aids

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Illinois Traction Terminal

Illinois Central Railroad
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Chicago & Alton Railroad Miscellaneous
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Childers, James Railroad

Haxel Railroading

Railroad Books—Miscellaneous

Railroad Fatalities

Railroad Time Books

Latino History Project Collection

Gossard, Steve Railroad

Huber, Dale Railroad Ephemera

Amtrak Timetables
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Alton Railroad Community Band