The Illinois Highway Story
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The Illinois Highway Story 1955
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Author : Illinois. Department of Public Works. Division of Highways
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1955
The Illinois Highway Story 1955 written by Illinois. Department of Public Works. Division of Highways and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1955 with Roads categories.
The Illinois Highway Story
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Author : Illinois. Division of Highways
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1964
The Illinois Highway Story written by Illinois. Division of Highways and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1964 with Roads categories.
The Illinois Highway Story
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Author : Illinois. Division of Highways
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1964
The Illinois Highway Story written by Illinois. Division of Highways and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1964 with Roads categories.
Lincoln Highway Across Illinois The
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Author : David A. Belden with Christine R. O’Brien
language : en
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Release Date : 2013
Lincoln Highway Across Illinois The written by David A. Belden with Christine R. O’Brien and has been published by Arcadia Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with History categories.
From southern Cook County to the Mississippi River, the Lincoln Highway meanders through many of Chicago's suburbs before heading west through Illinois's fertile farmland. America's first transcontinental highway once stretched nearly 3,400 miles from New York City to San Francisco. The story of the highway's role in shaping the contemporary American highway system is one that examines the interaction of technology and human spirit. Conceived by entrepreneur Carl G. Fischer in 1912 and endorsed by businessman Henry B. Joy, the idea of creating an automobile-friendly roadway spanning America would soon change the nature of travel in the 20th century. Lincoln Highway in Illinois defines and describes the role of the highway as it zigzags its way across the "Land of Lincoln" and highlights the cities, towns, and rural communities along its route.
Illinois Lincoln Highway
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
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Route 66
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Author : Susan Croce Kelly
language : en
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Release Date : 1990
Route 66 written by Susan Croce Kelly and has been published by University of Oklahoma Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Travel categories.
U.S. Highway 66 was always different from other roads. During the decades it served American travelers, Route 66 became the subject of a world-famous novel, an Oscar-winning film, a hit song, and a long running television program. The 2,000 mile concrete slab also became a seven-year obsession for Susan Croce Kelly and Quinta Scott. They traveled Route 66, photographing buildings, knocking on doors, and interviewing the people who had built the buildings and run the businesses along the highway. Drawing on the oral tradition of those rural Americans who populated the edge of old Route 66, Scott and Kelly have pieced together the story of a highway that was conceived in Tulsa, Oklahoma; linked Chicago to Los Angeles; and played a role in the great social changes of the early twentieth century. Using the words of the people themselves and documents they left behind, Kelly describes the life changes of Route 66 from the dirt-and-gravel days until the time when new technology and different life-styles decreed that it be abandoned to the small towns it had nurtured over the course of thirty years. Scott's photographic essay shows the faces of those 66 people and gives a feeling of what can be seen along the old highway today, from the seminal highway architecture to the grainfields of the Illinois prairie, the windbent trees of western Oklahoma, the emptiness of New Mexico, and the bustling pier where the highway ends on the edge of the Pacific Ocean. Route 66 uses oral history and photography as the basis for a human study of this country's most famous road. Historic times, dates, places, and events are described in the words of men and women who were there: driving the highway, cooking hamburgers, creating pottery, and pumping gas. As much as the concrete, gravel, and tar spread in a sweeping arc from Chicago to Santa Monica, those people are Route 66. Their stories and portraits are the biography of the highway.
Fourth Report Of The Illinois Highway Commission For The Years 1910 1911 1912 Classic Reprint
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Author : Illinois Highway Commission
language : en
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Release Date : 2018-09-10
Fourth Report Of The Illinois Highway Commission For The Years 1910 1911 1912 Classic Reprint written by Illinois Highway Commission and has been published by Forgotten Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-09-10 with Technology & Engineering categories.
Excerpt from Fourth Report of the Illinois Highway Commission for the Years 1910-1911-1912 In the following pages will be found a comprehensive outline of the various phases of work undertaken by the Illinois Highway Commis sion during the years, 1910, 1911 and 1912. This report will close seven years of active work on the part of the Illinois Highway Commission. The improvement of the public roads of Illinois has been studied from all view points. Information has been gathered, statistics compiled, practical work of a great variety and of considerable extent constructed, and practical experience gained of the needs and possibilities of various methods of construction in all parts of the State. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
House By The Side Of The Road
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Author : Mrs. L. A. Abbott
language : en
Publisher: Pines Pub.
Release Date : 2005-01-01
House By The Side Of The Road written by Mrs. L. A. Abbott and has been published by Pines Pub. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-01-01 with Farm life categories.
Mrs. L.A. Abbott was a story teller, and this book is a testament to that. She was a frequent participant in community activities and she reported on these. More importantly, she wrote about the little things, and that is what this book is about. Times changewe wouldnt have it any other waybut we need to remember what used to be. Mrs. Abbott, through her stories, tells us of an era that needs to be remembered.
Report Of The Illinois Highway Study Commission
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Author : Illinois Highway Study Commission
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1967
Report Of The Illinois Highway Study Commission written by Illinois Highway Study Commission and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1967 with Roads categories.
The Iron Road In The Prairie State
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Author : Simon Cordery
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2016-01-20
The Iron Road In The Prairie State written by Simon Cordery and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-01-20 with Transportation categories.
In 1836, Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas agreed on one thing: Illinois needed railroads. Over the next fifty years, the state became the nation's railroad hub, with Chicago at its center. Speculators, greed, growth, and regulation followed as the railroad industry consumed unprecedented amounts of capital and labor. A nationwide market resulted, and the Windy City became the site of opportunities and challenges that remain to this day. In this first-of-its-kind history, full of entertaining anecdotes and colorful characters, Simon Cordery describes the explosive growth of Illinois railroads and its impact on America. Cordery shows how railroading in Illinois influenced railroad financing, the creation of a national economy, and government regulation of business. Cordery's masterful chronicle of rail development in Illinois from 1837 to 2010 reveals how the state's expanding railroads became the foundation of the nation's rail network.
