ICES adjunct scientist Mike Conlon appointed ICES North site director. ICES North is in development in Sudbury at Health Sciences North Research Institute and will be launched in late 2017.
Although Illinois could not boast having the first steam-powered railroad in the United States or the Midwest (Maryland in 1828 and Ohio in 1836 claimed those honors), residents could brag of being the home state for some of the earliest American carriers.
Railroads flourished in England, from 1,000 miles in 1836 to more than 7,000 miles built by 1852. Railroads provided a fast, inexpensive, convenient, and efficient mode of transportation for many passengers. By the 1850s, railways connected the Atlantic seaboard and the Midwest in the United States.