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The Chicago North Shore and Milwaukee Railroad (reporting mark CNSM), also known as the North Shore Line, was an interurban railroad that operated passenger and freight service over an 88.9-mile (143.1 km) route between the Chicago Loop and downtown Milwaukee, as well as an 8.6-mile (13.8 km) branch line between the villages of Lake Bluff and Mundelein, Illinois.
The Chicago and North Western Railway closed their Milwaukee station (Lake Front Depot) and moved their passenger operations to the new Milwaukee Road depot in 1966. Following the formation of Amtrak in 1971, the Chicago and North Western withdrew all of its inter-city trains and commuter service from the station.
Milwaukee, Lake Shore and Western Railway: CNW: 1875 1893 Chicago and North Western Railway: Milwaukee and Lake Winnebago Railroad: CP: 1882 1899 Wisconsin Central Railway: Milwaukee and Madison Railway: CNW: 1880 1881 Chicago, Milwaukee and North Western Railway: Milwaukee, Manitowoc and Green Bay Railroad: CNW: 1870 1872 Milwaukee, Lake Shore ...
The Milwaukee, Lake Shore and Western Railway or Lake Shore Road (reporting mark MLS&W) is a former railroad company whose mainline connected Milwaukee, the Upper Peninsula and northwest Wisconsin [1] with connection to Chicago by way of the Chicago & North Western Railway. [2] It was acquired by the C&NW August 19, 1893. [3]
As of the 2019 census estimates, the Milwaukee–Racine–Waukesha Combined Statistical Area population was 2,047,966, the largest in Wisconsin and the 33rd largest in the United States. [8] The Milwaukee-Racine-Waukesha CSA shares an eastern border with the Madison MSA the Janesville - Beloit MSA which in turn are both a part of the Madison CSA.
A bacteria information sign is seen at South Shore beach, as construction to rehabilitate and relocate the beach further south along Lake Michigan will begin in October, on Friday October 4, 2024 ...
A suburban extension of Chicago's Lake Shore Drive to Waukegan was first promoted by the North Shore Improvement Association in the late 1880s. [4] In 1889 this road was named Sheridan Road for Philip Henry Sheridan, [5] a general in the Civil War who coordinated military relief efforts in Chicago following the Great Chicago Fire.
The Lake Front Depot was a train station in Milwaukee, Wisconsin built in 1889–1890 by the Chicago and North Western Railway (C&NW). It was located near the shore of Lake Michigan at the end of East Wisconsin Avenue, by today's Milwaukee County War Memorial.