The Chicago Aurora and Elgin Railroad (CA&E), known colloquially as the "Roarin' Elgin" or the "Great Third Rail", was an interurban railroad that operated...
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Elgin was a station on the Chicago Aurora and Elgin Railroad, where it was the western terminus of the Elgin branch. Throughout the early 20th century...
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service in the Chicago area. The Chicago North Shore and Milwaukee Railroad and the Chicago Aurora and Elgin Railroad used tracks of the Chicago "L", specifically...
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Bellwood was a station on the Chicago Aurora and Elgin Railroad (CA&E) serving Bellwood, Illinois, from 1902 to 1957. An adjacent station, serving the...
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Chicago, Milwaukee & Gary to Rockford, and the interurbans Chicago Aurora and Elgin Railroad, Aurora, Elgin and Fox River Electric Company, Chicago,...
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west toward Geneva. Soon bought by the Chicago Aurora and Elgin Railroad, the “country trolley” was lightly used, and abandoned in 1937. The right of way...
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western terminus of the Chicago Aurora and Elgin Railroad's main line, after which it split into two branches bound for Aurora and Elgin. It opened in 1902...
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The Chicago Aurora and Elgin Railroad (Aurora Elgin and Chicago before 1922) was an electric passenger railroad from Chicago west through its suburbs....
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by renowned Chicago architect Jarvis Hunt. Around 1902, the Chicago Aurora and Elgin Railroad constructed an electrified third-rail railroad between the...
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Illinois Prairie Path (category Bike paths in the Chicago metropolitan area)
majority of its routing runs on the former right-of-way of the Chicago Aurora and Elgin Railroad. May Theilgaard Watts is credited for a letter written in...
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The Elgin, Joliet and Eastern Railway (reporting mark EJE) was a Class II railroad, making a roughly circular path between Waukegan, Illinois and Gary...
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Company Chicago, Aurora and DeKalb Railroad Chicago Aurora and Elgin Railroad Chicago City Railway Chicago and Desplaines Valley Electric Railway Chicago General...
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Marshfield station (category Defunct Chicago "L" stations)
by the Aurora Elgin and Chicago Railway (AE&C) and its descendant the Chicago Aurora and Elgin Railroad (CA&E), an interurban, between 1905 and 1953. The...
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Kedzie station (CTA Garfield Park branch) (category Defunct Chicago "L" stations)
the Chicago Aurora and Elgin Railroad (CA&E), an interurban using Garfield Park tracks, between 1905 and 1953. The station was demolished when it and the...
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The Aurora, Elgin & Fox River Electric (AE&FRE), was an interurban railroad that operated freight and passenger service on its line paralleling the Fox...
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of these was the Chicago Aurora and Elgin Railroad which provided frequent service into Chicago. There was also the Elgin and Belvidere Electric Company...
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Laramie station (CTA Garfield Park branch) (category Chicago Transit Authority stubs)
Plaines Avenue. The AE&C, later renamed the Chicago Aurora and Elgin Railroad (CA&E), ceased operation in 1953, and the station closed altogether in 1958 when...
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York Street was a station on the Chicago Aurora and Elgin Railroad (CA&E) serving Elmhurst, Illinois. Opened on August 25, 1902, as South Elmhurst, it...
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Aurora with the Aurora, Elgin and Fox River Electric Company, the Chicago, Aurora and Elgin Railroad, and the Aurora, Plainfield and Joliet Railroad....
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a railroad museum in South Elgin, Illinois. Incorporated in 1961 as R.E.L.I.C. (Railway Equipment Leasing and Investment Co.), it opened in 1966 and became...
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Mount Carmel Cemetery (Hillside, Illinois) (category Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago)
Chicago mobster and beer baron, rival of Al Capone and wrongly convicted through Capone's influence Earl "Hymie" Weiss The Chicago Aurora and Elgin Railroad...
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Freeport, Rockford, Elgin, and Chicago which included the Rockford and Interurban Railway to the west and the Chicago, Aurora and Elgin Railroad to the east.[page needed]...
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Lombard, Illinois (category Chicago metropolitan area)
of the Chicago Aurora and Elgin Railroad (with commuter stops at Stewart Ave, Main St, Brewster Ave and Westmore/Meyers Road) and the Chicago Great Western...
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St. Louis station (CTA Garfield Park branch) (category Defunct Chicago "L" stations)
served its Garfield Park branch. The Chicago Aurora and Elgin Railroad (CA&E), an interurban serving Chicago's western suburbs, also used the Garfield...
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Hotel Arthur (category Former Chicago, Aurora, and Elgin stations)
building in Aurora, Illinois. It was originally designed as a hotel to service travelers on the Fox River. The Aurora, Elgin and Chicago Railroad relocated...
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forced to borrow equipment from the Chicago Rapid Transit Company and fellow interurban Chicago Aurora and Elgin Railroad, both former Insull properties....
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killing 85 people and injuring 47 in the Tasikmalaya area of West Java; sabotage is suspected. June 9 - The Chicago, Aurora and Elgin Railroad, interurban railway...
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Oak Park station (CTA Blue Line) (category Chicago Transit Authority stubs)
exchange for the AE&C going downtown. The AE&C and its successor, the Chicago Aurora and Elgin Railroad (CA&E), continued to maintain westbound-only express...
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Marquette Railroad steam locomotive 2-8-4 number 1225 is given to Michigan State University for display on campus. July 3 – The Chicago Aurora and Elgin Railroad...
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Canal station (CTA Metropolitan Main Line) (category Defunct Chicago "L" stations)
interurban Chicago Aurora and Elgin Railroad (CA&E) also served the station, continuing until 1953. The station connected with Chicago's Union Station...
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