Tracy, Illinois

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.

References

"Essex Township" (Map). Atlas of Kankakee County. J. H. Beers & Co. 1883.
Klasey, Jack (2016-06-18). "These Kankakee County towns vanished with hardly a trace". Daily Journal (News article). Kankakee, IL. Archived from the original on 2020-05-06. Retrieved 2020-05-06. 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...

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[1] "Essex Township" (Map). Atlas of Kankakee County. J. H. Beers & Co. 1883.

[2] Klasey, Jack (2016-06-18). "These Kankakee County towns vanished with hardly a trace". Daily Journal (News article). Kankakee, IL. Archived from the original on 2020-05-06. Retrieved 2020-05-06. 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...