Can anyone tell me about the "Great Train Robbery" on the Grand Trunk at 89th Street and Central PARK avenue in Evergren Park? My folks talked of the funeral trains from Chicago to St. Mary's Cemetery, that stopped at this site, but I've heard that in the days of "Railroad Express" there was a notorius train robbery which occured at that site in the 1920s.
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Does anyone remember the name of the air strip on cicero where a military training flight crashed During WWII? year? Fred Schumaker I think owned it. How about farmer Duff's vegtible stand on 83rd Street at Talman ave? The gas company storage tank near 75th and Kedzie hit by another military flight trying to land at midway during WWII? Year? details?
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