In October 2007, the Catfish Bend Casino in Burlington, Iowa, notified its staff that the casino was closing and they were going to be laid off.

Early purchases of the company included about of land from Edward Burling and his partners ; land was sold at a profit to Thomas Chittenden among others, and the settlements on the company's land have grown to become the city of Burlington.

Allen and his family moved to Burlington in 1787, which was no longer a small frontier settlement but a small town, and much more to Allen's liking than the larger community that Bennington had become.

He was buried four days later in the Green Mount Cemetery in Burlington.

Dewey was born in Burlington, Vermont, to a family of modest means.

Born in Burlington, Iowa, on May 15, 1874, Mason was the eldest son of Rear Admiral George Collier Remey and Mary Josephine Mason Remey, the daughter of Charles Mason, the first Chief Justice of Iowa.

The concept was quickly seen as successful, and was expanded to other railroads operating out of Chicago, including the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy, Chicago and Rock Island, Pennsylvania and the Erie.

Noyce was born on December 12, 1927, in Burlington, Iowa.

The galleria is covered by an arching glass and cast iron roof, a popular design for 19th-century arcades, such as the Burlington Arcade in London, which was the prototype for larger glazed shopping arcades, beginning with the Saint-Hubert Gallery in Brussels and the Passazh in St Petersburg.

The case was brought by three same-sex couples who applied for and were denied marriage licenses in the towns of Milton, Shelburne and South Burlington.

The D & RGW's sense of its unique geographical challenge found expression in what is arguably the world's most famous passenger train, the California Zephyr, which was jointly operated with the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad ( CB & Q ) from Chicago to Denver and the Western Pacific Railroad from Salt Lake City to Oakland, California ( with ferry and bus connections to San Francisco ).

After Fortune magazine exposed the manufactured mismanagement in 1974, Louis W. Menk, chairman of the Burlington Northern Railroad, remarked that the story was undermining the scheme to dismantle Amtrak.

Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington and 4th Earl of Cork PC ( 25 April 1694 – 15 December 1753 ), born in Yorkshire, England, was the son of Charles Boyle, 2nd Earl of Burlington and 3rd Earl of Cork.

Burlington was called ' the Apollo of the Arts ' and never took more than a passing interest in politics despite his position as a Privy Councillor and a member of the House of Lords.

Lord Burlington, also known as " the architect Earl ", was instrumental in the revival of Palladian architecture.

In the meantime, in 1723 he adapted the palazzo facade in the illustration for the London house of General Wade in Old Burlington Street, which was engraved for Vitruvius Britannicus iii ( 1725 ).

Burlington's first project, appropriately, was his own London residence, Burlington House, where he dismissed his baroque architect James Gibbs when he returned from the continent in 1719 and employed the Scottish architect Colen Campbell, with the history-painter-turned-designer William Kent for the interiors.

The courtyard front of Burlington House, prominently sited in Piccadilly, was the first major executed statement of neo-Palladianism.

In the 1720s Burlington and Campbell parted, and Burlington was assisted in his projects by the young Henry Flitcroft, " Burlington Harry "— who developed into a major architect of the second neopalladian generation — and Daniel Garrett — a straightforward palladian architect of the second rank — and some draughtsmen.

For the rest of his life Burlington was " the Apollo of the arts " as Horace Walpole phrased it — and Kent his ' proper priest.

In 1739, Burlington was involved in the founding of a new charitable organisation called the Foundling Hospital.

* March 20 – The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, Denver & Rio Grande Western, and Western Pacific railroads inaugurate the California Zephyr passenger train between Chicago and Oakland, California, as the first long distance train to feature Vista Dome cars as regular equipment.

In May 1934, the Union Pacific Railroad exhibited its first streamlined train, the M-10000, and the Burlington Route its famous Zephyr which, on May 26, made a record-breaking dawn-to-dusk run from Denver, Colorado, to Chicago in 13 hours and 5 minutes.

Both trains later went into successful revenue service, the Union Pacific's as the City of Salina, and the Burlington Zephyr as the first Pioneer Zephyr.

In 1731, Pope published his " Epistle to Burlington ", on the subject of architecture, the first of four poems which would later be grouped under the title Moral Essays ( 1731 – 35 ).

In many cases his ideas were informal: at Holkham Hall the architect Matthew Brettingham recalled that " the general ideas were first struck out by the Earls of Burlington and Leicester, assisted by Mr. William Kent.

* Westminster School, the Dormitory: 1722 – 1730 ( altered, bombed and restored ), the first public work by Burlington, for which Sir Christopher Wren had provided a design, which was rejected in favor of Burlington's, a triumph for the Palladians and a sign of changing English taste.

The county government was first organized on November 23, 1885 with Burlington as the county seat.

The Burlington County Library, the first county library in New Jersey, began in a small room of the Mt.

These tracks were located just north of the center of the city and during the first train's voyage it became stuck and supplies had to be carried into town Other major railways began to construct tracks to and from Jonesboro including St. Louis-San Francisco Railway, Burlington Northern Railroad, and Missouri Pacific Railroad.

Local businessmen were major backers of the first railroad to connect Illinois ' ( then ) two biggest cities — Chicago and Quincy — as well as a third leg initially terminating across the river from Burlington, Iowa, eventually connecting to it via bridge and thence onward to the Western frontier.

The Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad sited major rail sorting yards here, including the first to use hump sorting.

The southeast portion of Lovell ( which would become Sweden ) was first settled in 1794 by Colonel Samuel Nevers from Burlington, Massachusetts.

The first train crossed on July 4, 1891 and the bridge served the Green Bay & Western ( GBW ) and Burlington Route for the next 94 years until it was closed in 1985 and dismantled in the fall of 1990.

High Ridge was first used by humans approximately 10, 000 years ago as a source for flint and chert, which it has in copious abundance, due to the exposures of the Burlington formation, which is approximately 10-30 % composed of this rock.

The first railroad was built in Dunbar in 1869 when the Midland Pacific Railway and Burlington and Missouri River Railroads reached Nebraska City.

He was succeeded in the other titles by his first cousin once removed, the second Earl of Burlington, who became the seventh Duke ( see the Earl of Burlington for earlier history of this branch of the family ).

He was the son of William Cavendish, eldest son of the aforementioned first Earl of Burlington, youngest son of the fourth Duke.

William Cavendish, eldest son of the first Earl of Burlington and father of the seventh Duke, represented Aylesbury and Derby in Parliament.

George Henry Compton Cavendish, second son of the first Earl of Burlington, was Member of Parliament for Aylesbury.

Henry Frederick Compton Cavendish, third son of the first Earl of Burlington, was a General in the Army.

Charles Compton Cavendish, fourth son of the first Earl of Burlington, was created Baron Chesham in 1858.