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Dubuque (/ d ə ˈ b juː k / ⓘ, dəb-YOOK) is a city in and the county seat of Dubuque County, Iowa, United States, located along the Mississippi River. [3] At the time of the 2020 United States census, the population of Dubuque was 59,667. [4] The city lies at the junction of Iowa, Illinois, and Wisconsin, a region locally known as the Tri ...
Dr. Asa Horr began the fundraising effort to build a town clock in Dubuque, Iowa in 1864. The clock was built by New York City's Naylor & Co. and its frame was designed by architect William Longhurst. George D. Wood gave a ten-year lease to the city for the clock to be placed on the John Bell and Company Store building which they owned.
The Black Hawk was an Amtrak passenger train service that operated from 1974 to 1981 between Chicago, Illinois, and Dubuque, Iowa, via Rockford, Illinois.The original Black Hawk operated over the Illinois Central route, now the Canadian National's Chicago Central/Iowa Zone.
Adams also represented impending industrialization by painting the Dubuque Shot Tower and a bridge. Bunn painted "Early Mississippi Packet 'Dubuque III'" (also referred to as "Early Mississippi Steamboats") at the same time. His mural illustrates life in Dubuque in 1870, when steamboats were a primary method of transportation in the Midwest.
On June 3, 1886, the date of the sale of its property, the Wisconsin, Iowa and Nebraska Railway Company owned about 114.92 miles of main-line railroad, extending from a connection with the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad at East Des Moines, Iowa, to Waterloo, Iowa, 104.23 miles, with branches from Cedar Falls Junction to Cedar Falls ...
Location of Dubuque County in Iowa. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Dubuque County, Iowa. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Dubuque County, Iowa, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many ...
By December 1868 a drawbridge was built over the Mississippi River to Dubuque, Iowa. [4] The Dubuque Rail Bridge was rebuilt in the 1890s. With entrepreneur Jack Haley as president and CEO, the Chicago Central & Pacific Railroad was formed by a spin-off from the by-then-named Illinois Central Gulf. [5] Distinct operations began on December 24 ...
The railroad initially declined to hand passenger operations over to Amtrak, and service to Chicago continued until December 31, 1978. [2] In 2008, United States Senators Tom Harkin and Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Dick Durbin and Barack Obama of Illinois sent a letter to Amtrak asking them to begin plans to bring rail service to the Quad Cities. [3]