There’s an interesting investigation trending in the news near me and they mentioned the Richard riot, which brought me here after looking it up. So cool that this was posted just 9 days ago!

Loved the story!

I really love these videos. I've always been interested in the ancient history of N America. Ever since I found my first artifact. As a Texan I never knew I'd be excited about the history of the Chicago area. Thanks for the awesome content.

Excellent!!

Very interesting!!

was there just yesterday .. the outbuilding is fully collapsed now

This was fascinating! Well done as usual!

Loved this so interesting and informative 👍👍

This was an interesting story about grave robberies and why some people felt the practice was needed to help trach future doctors about human anatomy. I found the secret recovery of Marilla Churchill Kinyon's body, and its subsequent return to her family fascinating. Thank you for your exhaustive research in putting together is BeHistoric episode. I appreciate all the work that you do to produce each episode of BeHistoric. (Post 21 October 2024 at 2049 CDT.)

Great story and awesome video! Thanks for making this.

I soon found out about the western hicks I moved to Aurora. Am very happy. West off rout 47 is loaded with deplorable in bred yahoos

In the closing credits.. the dry stream bed; was this thought to an actual location in the story??

Very cool story

Video just posted as Im heading to work. But going to watch after work!

And yet ANOTHER outstanding video!! Really enjoying this series and the tunnel story just facinated me!! What an intresting story!!

This is one of the most wholesome stories I've ever heard 🥲

What a great video. Thank you for this! I visited Julien Dubuque's monument today on my trip along the Mississippi river. I'm a Quebecois from Canada myself and never heard the story of Julien Dubuque. They don't teach it to us back home in high school. No one talks about this at all. This is truly an amazing story and the monument is such an honor. Respect!

This series is amazing! ❤❤

Dunkerton historical society is moving the CGW depot originally from Lincoln (Berlin) Iowa that is currently north of Dunkerton into their new historical complex and going to be starting restoration on it. Well worth the look

This was really a great video. The research, the maps, and the narration are spot on. I've been recovering from some minor surgery. And your videos have really helped me pass the time. Thanks for all the hard work that goes into these.

You guys videos are fantastic. Thanks so much for this content. Indigenous history of N. America is my passion. These videos are very well made and informative. Keep em coming!!

Your videos are always so enjoyable and informative; thank you for creating them!

Thank you, I really enjoyed that!

Thank you for another historic adventure.

IF YOU NEED AN ASSISTANT... I live in North Aurora, IL and would LOVE to accompany you both on some of your excursions in the area ! -Mark Vogt | VOGTLAND OUTDOORS

Thank you. Very informative

I really enjoyed watching this, thank you so much for creating this video!

Thank you for this informative conclusion to your historical narrative of the Mayslake Peabody Estate! The research that you did for this video was extensive. You told us how the Franciscan Fathers acquired the property, the changes they made to the property to make it more useful to plans that they had for it. You also explained why they added other buildings that they deemed necessary for their goals and finally why it was necessary for them to dispose of the property. You explained how the DuPage County Forest Preserve District acquired the property and what they have done with the property since they took the property over. (Posted 28 September 2024 at 2051 CDT.)

Due to the 5K Video Description size limits, the video image credits are as follows: IMAGE CREDITS - DuPage County Forest Preserve District - www.newspapers.com (Chicago Tribune, Journal Gazette, Rock Island Argus, The Dispatch, Dixon Evening Telegraph, Effingham Daily Record, The Bakersfield Californian, Southwest Courier, Washington Citizen, The Messenger, Bridgeport News, Lemont Reporter) - www.ebay.com - US Immigration Records, www.familysearch.org - Illinois Digital Newspapers, idnc.library.illinois.edu (Naperville Clarion) - A L Griffith-Williams Photo, from Linda Neff - Hinsdale Historical Society - US National Archives - Oak Brook Historical Society - David Rumsey Collection, www.davidrumsey.com - www.findagrave.com (Beth D, Tom Brocher, Chas Toms) - Friars Minor in the United States, 1926 - Souvenir of the Laying of the Cornerstone of St Francis Church, Teutopolis, Illinois - Eugene Hagedorn, 1926 - 1939 Illinois Aerial Imagery, clearinghouse.isgs.illinois.edu/data/imagery/1937-1947-illinois-historical-aerial-photography - 1993 National Register of Historic Places Application - 1922 Domestic Engineering, www.archive.org - www.worthpoint.com - 1937 Life Magazine, www.archive.org - tencentarc, www.replicate.com - US Geological Survey - Catholic Churches and Institutions, O'Meara and Hills, 1928, www.archive.org - Heralds of the King, Marion Alphonse Habig, 1958, www.archive.org - Documented History of the Franciscan Order, Raphael M Huber, 1944, www.archive.org - Blimp Captain, Atlas Obscura - www.reliquarian.com - DuPage County History Museum - Nicola Carpenter, www.beneathmyfeet.blogspot.com - US Census Records, www.familysearch.org - Don Harrison, www.flickr.com - Dupage County Parcel Viewer, gis.dupageco.org/parcelviewer/ - History of the Joliet Diocese, Diocese of Joliet Catholic Church, 1955, www.archive.org - Martin A Berg - Bing Image Creator - Wikimedia Commons - Capitol Records, - www.discogs.com - TheJesuitPost.org - Mary Constance, www.flickr.com - Brother Donald Lachowicz - The Doings - The Daily Herald - First Folio Theater

hello...I live just a short walk from where the North Glen Ellyn station use to be. Part of North GE is incorporated due to the Lake Michigan water main being under the great western trail. GE built a pumping station right off Railroad street to pump water from there down Highland Ave (one block west of Main Street and now Glen Ellyn), into the town. There was also a huge Victorian home moved from the spot of the pumping station today, about a half block south.... Now, there was a fella a few doors down from me who lived in that area since the 1950's, who told me a few years ago that the train station is actually still there, or close. He told me it was moved, slightly west, and converted into a house. It's still there, just looks different.

A bunch of friends decided to find the tunnel (having a loose idea of its location) and we were able to enter it on what I recall as the East end. We ran out of time, but wish we would have explored the Western side as it was much more improved, and now gone. That was 25 years ago (or more). It was quite the adventure. No rattlesnakes were seen (cool March weather), the center section was collapsed intentionally from what we understood at the time. A fun day forbus for sure.

I'm going to use a little railroadeze right now. I bring trains across this area almost on a daily basis and sometimes I think about the two railroads that used to roll through here. Looking at a photo of the Red House i see on the black base of the signal is white numbers referring to the milepost of that location which is mp. 13.2. If my rough estimates are worth anything that would put the station about half way between 25th Ave. and the IHB bridge. More specifically, if you look on Google Maps on Madison St. at Systems Transportation Equipment and, look at the edge of the line of trees just North of the bike trail is my exact location i place the station in line with. I really wonder if the station was closer to 25th like the Villa Park station is along with a row of parking. Maybe they shared a depot.

Driving on I39 I've seen the bridge pier and assumed it was a CGW bridge artifact.

I was surprised this came up on my KZbin options. But having lived in Dubuque since I got married 40 years ago, I watched it. Very interesting.

I'm at 18:38. What would indicate it was a cemetery vs. something like they all ate poison berries, or they were killed?

Hello, I am the great-niece of Helen and Margaret Bollweg (my dad is their nephew). I wanted to offer some small corrections as well as an additional interesting (and somewhat spooky) story. Both Bollweg sisters weren’t burned to death- Margaret was actually ejected ~20ft down the tracks and then the electric car passed over her body. There are also mixed reports on the exact intersection and distance that the train dragged the car- some say 300ft, some say closer to 600. According to the family lore, their mother Lena (my great grandmother) had a reoccurring dream for weeks to months before the accident. In this dream, she kept seeing her 2 daughters lying in coffins in a very specific spot within their Warrenville home (3S511 Batavia Rd)- their large covered front porch. She did not realize that this exact scenario would soon happen, when the 2 sisters did, in fact, have their wake in that exact spot.

Video should be labeled as Former station sites as no disused stations are shown.

"Chicago before history," well that sounds like an authorize source! "

About to lose me with this AI generated slop. Love these videos but that's a no-go.

Thank you so much for this documentary. Forest Home is my favorite cemetery. I knew some of its history; thanks for filling in the blanks. More please! New subscriber.😮😮😊😊

Thanks for the deep dive. The signs at the exhibit don't let on much, like if the skeleton was articulated or not.

The Ada Harmon site on Main I have known about. It sits at a high point of land. It seems a very walkable distance from Churchill woods where the village was. Especially cutting through the prairies of the day as the crow flies.

Thank you for such an amazing video

Good ole Kane county

I grew up in Bolton, i was born in 1975.. Most of my family lived there. I own the two story on the south end. I remember a barn & store. They were torn down in the 1980's. My grandfather told me many stories about the railroad. The path is still there & until a couple years ago it was being used as a snowmobile trail, to the east there is a bridge.

Born and raised and still live in Dubuque County. I never expected to see this. I have a Mines of Spain tattoo on my shoulder in homage to the hundreds of hours friends and I spent out there exploring through our teen years. Thank you for this!

Great job as always. I made the trek to Oelwein along the right of way from Minneapolis 2 years ago and wanting to do it again.

I hope you will continue this series to St. Paul. I live in one of the small towns in Southeast Minnesota that this railroad passed through. There are a few old artifacts remaining.

Another outstanding episode! Sad to be nearing the end of this highly educational and enjoyable series.