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Lonely Rock Island

By Brian Schmidt | June 9, 2021

Lonely Rock Island

An inbound Rock Island commuter train arrives at the mostly vacant LaSalle Street Station on Dec. 27, 1972. The Chicago skyline shown here is drastically different from what visitors today would see. Denny Hamilton photo

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