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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 ...
The invention led to the creation of Garlock Sealing Technologies. Founded in 1887, in Palmyra, New York. For a detailed history of Garlock from its founding in 1887 until the takeover by Colt Industries in 1976, see Garlock - The First Eighty-Eight Years 1887-1975, written by Robert M. Waples and son. (Waples was President then Chairman 1955-1960)
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Bensenville is the site of Victory Auto Wreckers, a 7-acre (2.8 ha) auto recycling facility on Green Street which has repeatedly aired the "door-falling-off-the-car" commercial, [14] starring Bob Zajdel, on Chicago television stations since 1981.
The station is 17.2 miles (27.7 km) away from Chicago Union Station, the eastern terminus of the line. [2] In Metra's zone-based fare system, Bensenville is in zone 3. As of 2018, Bensenville is the 115th busiest of Metra's 236 non-downtown stations, with an average of 414 weekday boardings.
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 ...
The remaining section of IL 390 from IL 83 in Bensenville to the western edge of O'Hare International Airport is currently under construction and is expected to open in 2026. As of 2016 [update] , a feasibility study is underway on the western extension of IL 390 from US 20 to North Avenue in Bartlett, as well as changes to US 20 between North ...
Metra (reporting mark METX) is the primary commuter rail system [a] in the Chicago metropolitan area serving the city of Chicago and its surrounding suburbs via the Union Pacific Railroad, BNSF Railway, and other railroads.