By March 1857, the number of daily passenger trains had increased to two each way between Chicago and Janesville, Wis., and they were making additional stops at towns like Palatine, Cary, Crystal Lake, Woodstock and Harvard. In 1855 the Illinois & Wisconsin Railroad merged with Wisconsin’s Rock River Valley Railroad to form the Chicago, St. When farmers around the station objected to selling land for a town to be developed there, the railroad put the station building on a flatcar and moved it two miles northwest, where settlers around what is now Barrington were more accommodating. The name of Arlington Heights was suggested by real estate developers trying to lure Chicagoans to the suburb in the 1870s, and the name became official in 1887. But since there already was a Bradley in Illinois the name was quickly changed to Dunton. When a town grew around the depot, he named it Bradley, after a friend. The route plotted by the railroad ended up passing through the living room of his two-story house, which he had to move. ![]() Early settler William Dunton offered some of his land to the railroad to make sure it came to the area. ![]() Bradley, for instance, was an early name for Arlington Heights. Some of those stops are unfamiliar to us today. The return trip left Deer Grove at 4 p.m. The line opened with passenger train service in 1854, with one train daily leaving a depot near Canal and Kinzie at 9 a.m., serving stops at Jefferson, Canfield (Edison Park), Des Plaines and Bradley and arriving at Deer Grove at 11 a.m. ![]() That charter authorized the Illinois & Wisconsin Railroad to lay tracks between McHenry County and a point on the Galena & Chicago Union Railroad (today’s UP West line) in Cook County. In February 1851, the same month the ancestor of today’s UP North line was chartered, the State of Illinois chartered the railroad that would evolve into today’s UP Northwest line.
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