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Engine Company 21, organized in 1872, was the first all-black fire company in the Chicago Fire Department. The fire pole was invented by members of the company in 1888, and after inventing it, Engine 21 had the fastest response time in the city.
Fire Station No. 6, and variations such as Engine House No. 6, may refer to: Fire Station No. 6 (Birmingham, Alabama) Fire Station No. 6 (Sacramento, California) Fire Station No. 6 (Atlanta), Georgia, included in the Martin Luther King, Jr., National Historic Site; Engine House No. 6 (Wichita, Kansas) Engine House No. 6 (Baltimore, Maryland)
Fire Station No. 30, Engine Company No. 30, historic all-black segregated fire station and engine company, NRHP-listed, home of African American Firefighter Museum; Engine Company No. 28, Los Angeles, CA, NRHP-listed; Nevada City Firehouse No. 2, Nevada City, CA, NRHP-listed; Oceanside City Hall and Fire Station, Oceanside, CA, NRHP-listed
The Illinois was a fireboat operated by the Chicago Fire Department. [1] She was commissioned in 1888, and she was then described as the most powerful fireboat afloat. [2] She was one of the first fireboats to have a steel hull at a time when other fireboats were built of wood.
The company continued to operate separately as the Pere Marquette Railway until being fully merged into the C&O on June 6, 1947. Forty years later, the C&O was absorbed into CSX Transportation. In 1984, Amtrak named its passenger train between Chicago and Grand Rapids, Michigan, the Pere Marquette. [4]
The soon-to-be coffee shop is believed to have first been a gas station, built in the 1930s. The fire department took over in 1971 and stayed there until 1989. It housed a concrete company after that.
The station was the second to be built for Engine Company 1, established in 1864 when the city created a paid professional fire service. The company's first building also occupied this site: an Italianate structure, it was replaced to better meet the requirements of motorized fire equipment. [2]
The B&O's 63rd Street Station, in the South Lynne section of the city was the company's other station within Chicago en route to Grand Central Station. [2] [3] [4] The Chesapeake and Ohio Railway absorbed the Pere Marquette in 1947 and continued its trains to southwest Michigan. These were the last trains to run through the two stations when ...