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.
Accordingly, on January 1 st 1943, the U.S. War Manpower Commission informed the State. Department that the railroad industry faced a severe labor shortage, which resulted in bilateral talks with Mexico. to expand the Bracero Program to the railroads (Bracero timeline, 2002). By the end of 1944, more than 80,000.