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"Wanted! 3,000 Laborers" -- 1853

The Illinois Central Railroad was founded in 1851. It expanded service from Illinois to much of the Midwest. In 1999 it merged with the Canadian National Railway Company.

 

-- Encyclopaedia Britannica

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