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Tracks and depots of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad and Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad in Pana, 1913. The area around Pana was first organized as Stone Coal Precinct in 1845. The county's precincts became townships in 1856, and Stone Coal Precinct became Pana Township, Christian County, Illinois. In 1857 the village of Pana was ...
The Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad (reporting mark CEI) was a Class I railroad that linked Chicago to southern Illinois, St. Louis, and Evansville. Founded in 1877, it grew aggressively and stayed relatively strong throughout the Great Depression and two World Wars before finally being purchased by the Missouri Pacific Railroad (MP or ...
The Pana riot, or Pana massacre, was a coal mining labor conflict and also a racial conflict that occurred on April 10, 1899, in Pana, Illinois, and resulted in the deaths of seven people. It was one of many similar labor conflicts in the coal mining regions of Illinois that occurred in 1898 and 1899.
English: Tracks and depots of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, and Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad, in Pana. Identifier: panaillinoissome00reid Title: Pana, Illinois : some luminous phases of its every-day life, present activities and future possibilities : a graphic sketch of a thriving city located on the lines of four transcontinental railroads, with water and coal, and all modern ...
Just southwest of Springfield, Illinois, in 1852 a newly established town called Virden quickly rose from the ground up with various businesses, churches, a doctor and the towns' first school. The completion of the Chicago and Alton Railroad helped prompt the establishment of Virden. Later during the spring of 1853 they also had dry goods as ...
Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad: Eastern Illinois and St. Louis Railroad: C&EI: 1903 1905 Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad: Eldorado, Marion and Southwestern Railroad: MP: 1906 1913 Marion and Eastern Railroad: Electric City and Illinois Railway: 1889 1891 Madison, Illinois and St. Louis Railway: Elgin and State Line Railroad: CNW ...
The place was born as a railroad town after the Illinois Central established a station in the 1850s near Raccoon Grove, an area deeded by treaty to the descendants of Indiana fur trapper Joseph ...
The S&ISE can be seen on this Baltimore and Ohio Railroad map (labeled O&M). It passes through Springfield, Illinois and terminates at Shawneetown (shown as Shawnee T.), Illinois. Formed in 1870 as a consolidation of the Pana, Springfield and North Western Railroad and Illinois South Eastern Railway , the Springfield and Illinois South Eastern ...