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Checker Taxi was a dominant taxicab company and national franchisor that was based in Chicago, Illinois. Checker Motors was an American vehicle manufacturer based in Kalamazoo, Michigan that built the iconic Checker Taxicab, sold commercially as the Checker Marathon until 1982. [1] Both companies were owned by Morris Markin by the 1930s.
Checker Motors Corporation was a vehicle manufacturer, and later an automotive subcontractor, based in Kalamazoo, Michigan.The company was established by Morris Markin in 1922, created by a merger of the firms Commonwealth Motors and Markin Automobile Body, and was initially named the Checker Cab Manufacturing Company.
The Checker Model A is a taxicab produced by Checker Motors Corporation. The Model A was introduced mid- model year in 1939, and was built in 1941, when Checker switched over to wartime manufacturing , as did the rest of the automotive industry .
Restored ex-DSR bus 7618 built by Checker at the AACA Museum in Hershey, PennsylvaniaThe Checker Series E were transit buses sold by Checker Cab Manufacturing Corporation from 1951 to 1953, using a body built by the Union City Body Company (UCBC) of Union City, Indiana, on a chassis built by Checker in Kalamazoo, Michigan.
IL 162 has two lanes except around the Granite City Steel area and at I-55/I-70 and eastward into Troy. It is a main east–west artery between I-55 on the south, and I-270 on the north. The Illinois Department of Transportation is doing major work on IL 162 at the interchange with I-55/I-70 in Troy. The bridge that carries IL 162 over I-55/I ...
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U.S. Route 40 (US 40) runs east–west across south central Illinois for 159.8 miles (257.2 km). US 40 enters the state from Missouri across the Poplar Street Bridge over the Mississippi River at East St. Louis concurrent with Interstate 55 (I-55) and I-64 and exits just south of State Line, Indiana, running concurrently with I-70.
Granite City is a city in Madison County, Illinois, United States, within the Greater St. Louis metropolitan area. The population was 27,549 at the 2020 census , [ 3 ] making it the third-largest city in the Metro East and Southern Illinois regions, behind Belleville and O'Fallon .