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INDIAN TRAILS, PLANKED ROADS, STAGE ROUTES, RAIL, AND AVATION.







America's First Automobile Race occurred in Chicago, Illinois, in 1895.
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Co. (B&O) Depot in the City of Flora, Illinois.
Bessie "Queen Bess" Coleman the First Black and Native American Woman's Pilot License.
Checkerboard Flying Field & U.S. Air Mail Field in Broadview, Illinois.
Chicago Executive Airport, Wheeling, Illinois, formerly Palwaukee Municipal Airport (PWK)
Connection to Aviation History: A Former Southwest Chicago Suburban Airfield.
DeWitt Clinton Steam Locomotive, at the 1893 and 1933/34 Chicago World's Fairs.
Elgin Illinois Airport, The First One, (42.07 North / 88.29 West).
Frink & Walker Stage Line Company of Chicago. Est. 1832.
Galena & Chicago Union Railway Station at Canal and Kinzie, Chicago's first depot. 1855
Green Bay Indian Trail, aka "Old Jambeau Trail," Chicago to Green Bay, Wisconsin.
How the Automobile became King in Chicago.
Lincolnwood, Illinois Motor Speedway (1932-1936).
Illinois Central Railroad History in Freeburg, Illinois.
Illinois Central Railroad No.121 Green Diamond Streamliner Passenger Train. 1936-1968.
Illinois Traction System, later, Illinois Terminal Railroad Company, History. (1901-1982)
Indian Trails - Green Bay Trail, aka "Old Jambeau Trail," Chicago to Green Bay, Wisc.
Indian Trails - The Vincennes Trace.
La Grange, Illinois, Burlington Northern & Amtrak Zephyr Passenger Crash, August 27, 1977.
Merrill C. Meigs Field Airport History, Chicago, Illinois (1948-2003).
Plank Road History in the Chicago area.
Pullman Palace Dining Car, the Isabella, was built in 1893 in Sandwich, Illinois.
Reasons why Chicago's property grid system isn't completely perfect.
Rudimentary Road Construction History in Early Chicago and the Eastern United States.
South Side Rapid Transit 'L' Railroad (CTA Green Line), extended for the 1893 World's Fair.
Stagecoach - Frink & Walker Stage Line Company of Chicago. Est. 1832.
The Traveler's Directory for Illinois, published:1839 
Tom Thumb, America's First Steam Locomotive (1830) at the 1933/34 Chicago World's Fair.
U.S. Mail Railway Post Offices in Illinois.
Were there train tracks through the center of Chicago Municipal Airport's (Midway) runways?
Why Chicago's Street Suffixes are Inconsistent.
Willa Beatrice Brown an aviator, teacher, lobbyist, civil rights activist and woman of influence.
World's Columbian Exposition 1893 - Intramural Railway.