The Development of Chicago And Vicinity As a Manufacturing Center Prior to 1880
The Development of Chicago And Vicinity As a Manufacturing Center Prior to 1880
Elmer Author Riley
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But the means of transportation between the western shore of Lake Michigan and the region stretching westward to the Mississippi and beyond destined to be of greater service in building up the commerce and industries of Chicago and Vicinity, was the railroad. In the same year in which work began upon the Illinois and Michigan Canal, the Galena and Chicago Union Rail- road was chartered.^'' The Canal was to give water communication with St. Louis and the Southwest ; the railroad was designed to ...give land communication with Galena and the Northwest. The relative importance of Galena and its lead trade at that time secured it prece- dence in the title of the company. Although the road was chartered 2'IIistory of Raoine and Kenosha Counties, p. 370. ^Directory of Milwaukee, 18r)l-"2, p. Xiv. 3*Moses and Kirkland : History of Chicago, Vol. I, p. 304. ^For detailed history of the bulldina: of this railroad see Moses and Kirkland'ts Hist, of Chicago, Vol. I, pp. 415 et seq. 85 in 1836, little could be accomplished towards its construction until 1847, when a new charter was obtained and work was actively be- gun.
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