Interesting, but un-modeled industries

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Funny coincidence, btw - while doing family history research, I learned a few months ago that I at some time had relatives in this area - an older sister of my paternal grandfather emigrated from Norway in 1903 and settled in the Franklin Park/Schiller Park area. Looking at the map, I also realize this area is fairly close to Mount Prospect, where an older brother of my maternal grandmother lived for many years.

Guess this must be an area where quite a few Scandinvian immigrants from the early 1900s settled down.

Grin,
Stein

There is a good reason as to why the Minnesota football team is called the "Vikings". Many of the largest Lutheran church organizations in the US are located up there as well. I do believe that there are also such populations in Wisconsin, northern Michigan, and so Chicago would make sense as well.

While I think I have seen coke ovens on a layout or two, I've never seen the sort of typical 1870s operation with 4-wheel cars and ovens that would be really cool.

Michael