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Fair construction
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Image
Date:
1933-1934
Collection:
Century of Progress records
Access:
Public access
Train overpass, South Martin Luther King Drive
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Image
View looking north along South Martin Luther King Drive towards a viaduct which serves as a train overpass. The intersection with East 91st Place is just beyond the viaduct. At the right side of the photograph, behind a "Children Crossing" sign, two billboards advertise cigarettes and crackers.
Date:
circa 1972
Collection:
C. William Brubaker Collection
Access:
Public access
Illinois Central Railroad exhibit
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Image
Date:
1933
Collection:
Century of Progress records
Access:
Public access
Proposal for Lawndale: industrial areas
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Image
Hand-drawn map by C. William Brubaker, showing industrial areas in Lawndale.
Date:
1979
Collection:
C. William Brubaker Collection
Access:
Public access
Rufus C. Dawes (right), president of the Century of Progress, in front of the Chicago, St. Paul & Milwaukee locomotive.
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Image
Date:
1933
Collection:
Century of Progress records
Access:
Public access
The Association of Manufacturers of Chilled Car Wheels assemble in front of the Century of Progress Administration Building.
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Image
Date:
October 1932
Collection:
Century of Progress records
Access:
Public access
Freight train on raised embankment
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Freight train traveling along a raised embankment on the Chicago and Western Indiana Railroad (C&WI railroad) line at West 87th Street near South Holland Road. One of the boxcars is a Soo Line car.
Date:
circa 1972
Collection:
C. William Brubaker Collection
Access:
Public access
South Shore interurban train
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View of the South Shore interurban electric train from the Indiana Toll Road.
Date:
1977
Collection:
C. William Brubaker Collection
Access:
Public access
Davis Street, Evanston
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View east along Davis Street from the intersection with Maple Avenue. A train travels along the elevated Chicago and North Western railroad tracks, just past the intersection with Maple. Orrington Plaza (1603 Orrington Avenue), a high-rise office building, is behind the tracks.
Date:
circa 1976
Collection:
C. William Brubaker Collection
Access:
Public access
Lake Calumet and Calumet River area
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Image
Map of the Lake Calumet and Calumet River area, showing expressways and major streets, parks and forest preserves, and railway lines serving the area.
Date:
circa 1969
Collection:
C. William Brubaker Collection
Access:
Public access
Railway lines serving Chicago's far south side
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Map of Chicago's far south side, showing freight railway lines serving the area.
Date:
circa 1969
Collection:
C. William Brubaker Collection
Access:
Public access
Illinois Central Railroad exhibit under construction
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Image
Date:
1933
Collection:
Century of Progress records
Access:
Public access
McHenry County, Illinois
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Hand-drawn map by C. William Brubaker showing major towns and highways in McHenry County, along with two railroad lines running through the county.
Date:
circa 1974
Collection:
C. William Brubaker Collection
Access:
Public access
North Branch of the Chicago River and West Town
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View looking northwest from the Holiday Inn Mart Plaza Hotel (350 W. Mart Center Drive). There is a large parking lot in the foreground, and railroad tracks are visible at the far left. At the far right, the North Branch of the Chicago River is spanned by the West Grand Avenue bridge and the Ohio Street bridge.
Date:
1978
Collection:
C. William Brubaker Collection
Access:
Public access
Illinois Central Railroad exhibit
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Image
Date:
1933
Collection:
Century of Progress records
Access:
Public access
Model Illinois Central train parading down the Avenue of Flags
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Image
Date:
1933
Collection:
Century of Progress records
Access:
Public access
Industrial areas, West Town
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Image
View looking northwest over West Town from the Holiday Inn Mart Plaza Hotel (350 W. Mart Center Drive). There is a large parking lot in the foreground, with raised railroad tracks adjacent to it. At the far left of the image, other railroad tracks run west. The North Branch of the Chicago River is on the right, spanned by the West Grand Avenue bridge and the Ohio Street bridge.
Date:
1978
Collection:
C. William Brubaker Collection
Access:
Public access
Illinois Central Railroad tracks, Harvey, Illinois
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Image
View northeast along a now-closed section of Commercial Avenue, from just south of the intersection with East 154th Street (visible in the middle of the image). The embankment for the Illinois Central Railroad tracks runs along the west side of the street.
Date:
1976
Collection:
C. William Brubaker Collection
Access:
Public access
Waukegan lakefront
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View looking east towards Lake Michigan in Waukegan. Freight cars are visible on the railway line, and an auto junkyard is adjacent.
Date:
1972
Collection:
C. William Brubaker Collection
Access:
Public access
Houses, South Ewing Avenue
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Rear view of houses located on the east side of South Ewing Avenue. The house at the far right (9507 South Ewing Avenue) sits at the intersection of South Ewing Avenue and East 95th Street. Behind the utility pole on the left, part of a cylindrical gas storage tank and an overhead crane are visible. Railroad tracks run alongside the rear of these homes, and in the foreground part of the western edge of Calumet Park is visible.
Date:
circa 1972
Collection:
C. William Brubaker Collection
Access:
Public access
Models for the U.S. Steel exhibit
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Image
Date:
1933-1934
Collection:
Century of Progress records
Access:
Public access
Land use, Pilsen
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Detail of a land use map showing a portion of Pilsen, bisected by railway lines. Blue Island Avenue runs diagonally through the area.
Date:
1980
Collection:
C. William Brubaker Collection
Access:
Public access
Garfield Park and Douglas Park
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Hand-drawn map by C. William Brubaker, showing the location of Garfield Park and Douglas Park, two of the parks in the "Emerald Necklace", and the boulevards that connect them. Annotations in red ink describe the type of land use in the areas surrounding the park system.
Date:
1979
Collection:
C. William Brubaker Collection
Access:
Public access
East Chicago, Indiana
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Sketch by C. William Brubaker showing the boundaries of East Chicago, the names and locations of the major refineries in 1972, major railway lines, and the main arterial roadways.
Date:
1972
Collection:
C. William Brubaker Collection
Access:
Public access
Industrial areas, West Town
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View looking northwest over West Town from the Holiday Inn Mart Plaza Hotel (350 W. Mart Center Drive). There is a large parking lot in the foreground, with raised railroad tracks adjacent to it. Along the left side of the image, other railroad tracks run west. On the far right the North Branch of the Chicago River is visible, spanned by the West Grand Avenue bridge and the Ohio Street bridge.
Date:
1978
Collection:
C. William Brubaker Collection
Access:
Public access

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