Why is an embankment in City right-of-way?
On June 12, 1872, the Chicago and Pacific Railroad was granted an easement to install tracks on “Bloomingdale Road.” For public safety, the Chicago City Council passed an ordinance on July 27, 1910 requiring the railroad (now the Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul Railway) to elevate the tracks by the end of 1913. (Similar ordinances occurred on other railroads.) As railroads changed and merged over the years, this easement and embankment eventually became part of the Canadian Pacific Railway.
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