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Prior to the 1991 reorganization, the responsibilities of the Department of Transportation (and several other current city departments) belonged to the Chicago Department of Public Works. The Department of Public Works was first recognized as a branch of the city administration in 1861, at which point it consolidated the services of water ...
The Baltimore and Ohio Chicago Terminal is a corporation of Illinois, having its principal office at Chicago, Ill. It is controlled by the Baltimore and Ohio through ownership of its capital stock. It controls, through ownership of the capital stock, the Lyons & Chicago Railroad Company whose common-carrier property it operates under lease.
The year 2000 brought the addition of the Chicago Fire Department fleet of 140 fire engines, 105 ambulances, and 87 aerial units under Fleet Management's supervision. In 2004, the City's fleet centralization process was accelerated when the Chicago Department of Water Management and Chicago Police Department were added as DFM customer departments.
In this case, Illinois Central was granted unrestricted rights to an enormous, 1,000-acre (4.0 km 2) section of submerged land, which occupied the entire aquatic area bordering the Chicago harbor. Justice Field found the state can never permanently transfer authority over these submerged lands, but only grant revocable permissions to them.
Justice Harlan argued that the concept of due process of law required fair compensation to be given for any private property seized by the state. In responding to the City of Chicago's claim that due process of law was served merely by allowing the railroad company's grievance to be heard, Harlan stated that satisfying legislative procedure alone is not enough to satisfy due process: "In ...
Like many large cities, Memphis had two passenger terminals, and a similar transfer office was maintained at Memphis Union Station. Transfer offices were used by RPO clerks as a point to read job bulletins (order books maintained by the Chief Clerk) before starting on a run, and as a location to finish paperwork at the end of a run.
Location and general description of property.—The railroad of the Chicago Heights Terminal Transfer Railroad Company, herein called the carrier, is a single-track, standard-gauge, steam-operated, switching railroad, located in and about Chicago Heights, Ill. It consists of 6.697 miles of main track and 13.298 miles of yard tracks and sidings.
C.T.C. No. 1 is a 620-foot-long cargo hauler brought to the south Chicago ports in 1982. With a capacity of 16,300 tons, this ship was used for storage and transfer of cement until its termination in 2009. The ship hasn't moved since its termination and then purchase by the Grand River Navigation Co., Traverse City, MI. [7]