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Illinois Central Railroad

CTL-E-0358 · Organization · other · unspecified

PROVISIONAL evidence grade of this record

Chicago-headquartered railroad whose north-south mainline (Chicago-New Orleans via Mississippi, with Memphis branches) was the Great Migration's principal physical corridor.

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from GLOBAL-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-GLOBAL-001:GBL-040; source research type(s): Organization. Era not present in source research record(s); marked unspecified pending human review.

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