The Illinois central rail-road company offer for sale over 2,400,000 acres selected prairie, farm and wood lands, in tracts of any size, to suit purchasers, on long credits ... situated on each side of their rail-road extending all the way from the extreme north to the south of the state of Illinois. - Illinois Central Railroad Company (New York, J.W. Amerman, printer, 1855)
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Keywords: Illinois -- Description and travel; Railroad land grants -- Illinois