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Yerkes A Chicago Growth Pioneer and Benefactor
Charles Tyson Yerkes shaped Chicago’s growth from a prairie city to a transit hub. He introduced cable and trolley systems, expanded boundaries, and spurred annexations including Hyde Park Lake and Lake View. A Philadelphia banker turned railroad magnate, he built North Side and West Division lines and financed university science with a half million dollar telescope for the University of Chicago at Williams Bay.
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Charles T. Yerkes
Chicago
Fullerton Avenue
80Th Street
Western Avenue
Yerkes
Hyde Park
Lake
Lake View
Jefferson
Charles Tyson Yerkes
North Chicago
West Chicago Street Railroad
Elizabeth Link Broom
Philadelphia
England
Penn
Willan Penn
Mr. Yerkes
Central High School
3D Street
Dot
la Chieno
Seventeenth and Nineteenth Street Railway Company
Jay Cooke
Mr. Cooke
Continental Passenger Railway
Europe
New York
Yorkes
St. Pau
Minneapolis
Duluth
Norther Pacific
Fargo
North Dakota
Dakota
la Salle
Madison Streets
North Side
North Chicago City Railway
Camp Y
la Salle Street
Chicago West Division Railway
North Side Road
Hin
Mary Adelaide
Thomas Moore
Powters & Weightman
University of Chicago
Williams Bay
Geneva Lake
Wis