https://books.google.com/books?id=tR04AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA270 An act supplemental to "An act to amend an act entitled 'An act to incorporate the Chicago and Plainfield Railroad Company,' approved February 24, 1859, and an act amendatory thereto entitled 'an act to incorporate the Chicago and Plainfield Railroad Company,'[sic ] " approved March 29, 1869], approved April 19, 1869 The road's first construction contract was dated August 21, 1869, and on January 6, 1873 it was opened from Streator to Pekin, except for about 6 miles of trackage rights on the Toledo, Peoria and Warsaw Railway between Eureka (Streator Junction) and Washington (Pekin Junction).