Check out todays special Brown Bag Lunch!! In the 1850s, Midwestern towns were locked in a heated race over who could bring railroad service to their communities. When DeKalb secured the railroad first, Sycamore’s leaders came up with a radical idea. They would build their own five-mile spur line to connect their town to the main line through Cortland, thus linking Sycamore to Chicago and the nation’s expanding frontier. That decision and the 125 years of railroad history that followed are the subject of the book Five-Mile Spur Line: A Railroad History of Sycamore, Illinois, by writer and historian Clint Cargile. He will be sharing Sycamore’s railroad history at a Brown Bag talk at the Sycamore Depot (DeKalb County Community Foundation) on Thursday, December 4, at 12pm. The program is free and open to the public. He will discuss what it was like when the first railroad engine steamed into Sycamore and how it altered the local economy, the lives of the people, and the relationship between DeKalb and Sycamore.
Posted on: Thu, 04 Dec 2014 14:55:10 +0000
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