Editor Keith A. Sculle Guest Editor Lawernce W. McBride Illinois State University Normal Advisory Board, Volume 6:3 Kay J. Carr Southern Illinois University Carbondale Patricia Grimmer Carbondale Community High School Carbondale Robert H. LombardAnn M. Pictor Western Illinois University Macomb Ann M. Pictor Illinois State Board of Education Springfield Board of Trustees Julie Cellini, Chair Pamela A. Daniels Edward M. Genson Samuel Lilly Carol Stein Warren L. Swanson Director Susan Mogerman Manager, Public Affairs and Development Maynard Crossland Chief of Publications Evelyn R. Taylor

Introduction ........................1 Teaching Science, Technology, and Invention in Illinois History: An Overview .............................2 Lawrence W. McBride The Historical Development of Agriculture in Illinois .......... 4 Pamela Riney-Kehrberg Curriculum Materials Agriculture in Illinois, 1850-1900 .................6 Dayna Mergenthaler Agriculture in Illinois in the Twentieth Century ......12 Dayna Mergenthaler Before the Age of Pasteurization: Marjory Ogg's Story about Dwight, Illinois, in the Early 1930s ........................17 Melissa Beck The Historical Development of Transportation in Illinois .....20 Terri Ryburn-LaMonte Curriculum Materials Early Routes and Modes of Transportation of Illinois ................22 Stacey Pickett Transportation Connections within an Urban Community ......31 Gerald A. Danzer and Lawrence W. McBride Route 66 ........................35 Mark Faherty The Historical Development of Industry and Manufacturing in Illinois .............. 41 Mark Matejka Curriculum Materials The Meatpacking Industry in Chicago: The Early Years of the Union Stockyards ................44 Kelly Griffin Industrial Development and Decline in South Chicago, 1830-Present ......53 Gerald A. Danzer and Lawrence W. McBride The Historical Development of Science, Technology, and Invention in Illinois History .......... 59 Michael K. Daugherty Curriculum Materials Early Illinois Medicine .................62 Stacey Pickett Science, Technology, Invention, and Medicine in Illinois ......70 Monica Cousins Noraian Technological Connections in Your Neighborhood ........................83 Gerald A. Danzer and Lawrence W. McBride Bibliography & Contributors' Biographies ........................87