Transportation as a Factor in the Development of Northern Illinois Previous to 1860 - Couverture souple
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Transportation A Faetof iri the Development of Northern Illinois Previous to 1860 By Ju DsoN FisKE Lee LEWIS INSTITUTE CHICAGO INTRODUCTION In the following pages an attempt is made to trace the development taking place before 1860 in that portion of Illinois lying north of the southern prairie line. This includes most of the State north of the mouth of the Illinois River. The development, too, of the transportation facilities which serve this area, and the relation of this development to that taking place in the district itself, form a part of this study. This portion of Illinois is composed of two distinct sections, the river land, and the prairie. These two divisions had, for the most part, distinct and separate histories. The prairie looked to the north for a commercial outlet; it was developed only as that route offering lake and rail transportation was made efficient in its carrying facilities. While the river land looked to the south for connections with the outside world, this river section was developed and settled as that route or as steam navigation upon the rivers (imports came in part via Cincinnati and the Ohio River; exports in part via Cincinnati and in part via St. Louis and New Orleans) improved in its carrying power. The chief stimulus to settlement and development in this section came from river transportation; in the prairie from transportation by lake and by railroad. River transportation began earlier than the lake and rail transportation, and as a result the river counties were settled earlier than the prairies. In this treatment of the subject,, however, this order is not followed; instead, the development of the lake route and the settlement depending on it are first traced.
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