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  2. Mazon Creek fossil beds - Wikipedia

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    The ironstone concretions are recovered from exposures along streams, roadcuts and in active or abandoned coal mine areas. Most concretions are found among the shale and sandstone that was piled up in either a spoil tip of an older underground mine, or ridges of the later surface mining .

  3. National Mine Map Repository - Wikipedia

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    NMMR's oldest mine: 1792 anthracite coal, "Old Mine." One of NMMR's oldest mine maps: 1859 anthracite coal map from Hazleton Coal Co. The NMMR contains digital and microfilm maps of surface and underground coal, metal, and non-metal mines throughout the United States. Some of the information that can be obtained from the repository includes:

  4. Chicago Tunnel Company - Wikipedia

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    Newly built tunnel sidings in a building basement, with a bin to receive coal deliveries and a conveyor up to the boiler room. In 1914, 22 buildings had tunnel connections for coal delivery, including the First National Bank of Chicago, several hotels, Marshall Field's, City Hall and the County Building. A total of 16,414 carloads or 57,906 ...

  5. Investigation continues into human remains found at abandoned ...

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    The Bureau County Sheriff's Office said that an autopsy was conducted Tuesday on the remains, which were found June 8 at the site of a former coal mine best remembered for a devastating 1909 fire ...

  6. Chicago flood - Wikipedia

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    The City of Chicago then gave permission to install the new pilings 3.5 feet (1.1 m) south of the old pilings. The crew members who began work at the site did not know that beneath the river was an abandoned Chicago Tunnel Company (CTC) tunnel that had been used in the early 20th century to transport coal and goods. One of the pilings on the ...

  7. Carrier Mills, Illinois - Wikipedia

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    After the lumber boom died out, Coal mining had a great influence on Carrier Mills. Over one hundred coal mines were privately and publicly operated around Carrier Mills between near the turn of the 20th century and the late 1990s. [9] from 1913 to 1933, was the southern terminus of the Southern Illinois Railway & Power Company's Interurban ...

  8. Map: Illinois Underground Railroad historical sites, plus ...

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    If you were paying attention in history class, you’ll recall the Underground Railroad wasn’t a railroad at all. Rather, it was a fluid network of locations where freedom seekers sought refuge ...

  9. Cardiff, Illinois - Wikipedia

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    The White Breast Fuel Coal Company arrived in the area in 1899 looking to start a coal mine near the village of Campus. After meeting resistance from many of the people in Campus, the coal company purchased land from Patrick Collopy in May 1899 for $7,660. [5] Ground was broken for the new mine on May 6, 1899. Coal was found at a depth of 250 feet.