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Jul 25, 2016 · In August 1966, the Chicago Freedom Movement, Martin Luther King’s campaign to break the grip of segregation, reached its violent culmination. Fifty years on, the struggle continues. Above ...
Feb 26, 2015 · ATSF 3119 (GP20) has just crossed the South Branch of the Chicago River, Chicago, IL in January 1972. This was still during the period when the Santa Fe stored and prepared the trains they ran for Amtrak in their own coach yard.
- Dennis Debruler
The Alton Junction, more commonly known as the 21st Street Crossing, is a historically significant rail location in Chicago, Illinois. The junction can be found just east of Canal Street and north of Cermak Road near Chicago's Chinatown.
21st Street Now. Two double track lines cross here. The north-south line is Norfolk Southern's ex-CR, ex-Pennsy main line that runs across the south branch of the Chicago River to Union Station. Just before the huge lift bridge crossing the river, NS ownership ends.
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On Jan. 10, 1964, the Chicago City Council renamed the Congress Expressway after former President Dwight D. Eisenhower. And so, the highway’s name honors the president who’d proposed the...
The Great Migration was the largest mass movement in American history. It began in 1915 and continued into the 1970s. During this national upheaval, more than 7 million blacks left the South and headed north and west. To Southern blacks, Chicago was the "Promised Land."
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Mar 27, 2020 · In 1944, a two story interlocking tower was built north of the 21st Street Crossing. Before that, control was from an elevated tower over the crossing. I got the 1944 date from Jon Roma's comment on a share.
