Tracy, Illinois Explained

Tracy is a ghost town in Essex Township, Kankakee County, Illinois.[1]

Tracy was a relatively small settlement, amounting to possibly a dozen buildings, which housed coal miners exploiting a nearby coal seam in the 1800s; and it disappeared quickly around 1900, when the seam ran out.[2] According to the 1892 Map of the Illinois Central Railroad, Tracy was located just northwest of Buckingham and served as a major spur from the later.[3]

References

41.1694°N -88.2339°W

Notes and References

  1. Essex Township . Atlas of Kankakee County . J. H. Beers & Co. . 1883.
  2. Web site: Klasey . Jack . These Kankakee County towns vanished with hardly a trace . . News article . en . 2016-06-18 . Kankakee, IL . 2020-05-06 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200506202442/https://www.daily-journal.com/news/local/these-kankakee-county-towns-vanished-with-hardly-a-trace/article_5fd994b3-3707-5cdc-b540-d7a8b91c5f4b.html . 2020-05-06 . live . limited . In the early 1880s, three towns sprung up to house miners exploiting a seam of coal...They lived in the towns of Tracy, Oklahoma and Clarke City. The first two settlements were relatively small, amounting to possibly a dozen buildings each...When the coal seam ran out around 1900, the towns were doomed. Tracy and Oklahoma disappeared quickly....
  3. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/33/1892_IC.jpg

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