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Bensenville Yard on Milwaukee Road 1939 (Photo by Jack Delano) As early as the 1870s, the Milwaukee Road, as it later became, operated a northwest connection from Chicago to Elgin. It passed through rural Bensenville. The first major freight station with an engine shed was built here by 1916, which was continuously expanded in the following ...
Victory Auto Wreckers was an auto salvage yard in Bensenville, Illinois, near Chicago's O'Hare International Airport. It is well known in the Chicago area for its former television commercial, in which a young man struggles with a car door that has just detached from its hinges. The commercial aired with limited changes from 1985 to 2015 ...
Thompson Center may refer to: James R. Thompson Center, an office building in Chicago, Illinois; Thompson Center Arms, an American firearms company
People from Bensenville, Illinois (6 P) Pages in category "Bensenville, Illinois" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total.
James Arness as Matt Dillon. The company was managed by Fritz Dickie from 1927 through 1974. [1] In 1933 Stembridge's nephew, Ed Stembridge, also joined the firm. [2]By 1940 the business had an arsenal of 7,000 rifles, 1,200 revolvers, and 200 machine guns, including Thompson M1921s and M1928s, and was considered one of the largest private arsenals in the country.
Bensenville is a village located near O'Hare International Airport in DuPage County, Illinois, with a portion of the town in Cook County. As of the 2020 census , the village population was 18,813. First known as Tioga, it was formally established as Bensenville in 1873 along the Milwaukee Road (now Canadian Pacific ) right-of-way.
In 2016–2017, filmmaker and cultural heritage activist Nathan Eddy directed a short documentary film about Thompson Center – Starship Chicago. [19] Architect Stanley Tigerman appears in the film. [20] In 2019, Illinois governor J. B. Pritzker signed a bill to begin the sale of the Thompson Center, with a proposed three-year timeline to find ...
Thompson Township is one of 23 townships in Jo Daviess County, Illinois, United States. As of the 2010 census, its population was 841 and it contained 1,036 housing units. As of the 2010 census, its population was 841 and it contained 1,036 housing units.