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Women in the Garment Industries, (
Authored Entry
) ...Women in the Garment Industries...
...After the Civil War, the garment industry grew in downtown Chicago. Immigrant women often took this...
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Funeral Service Industry, Mark R. Wilson(
Authored Entry
) ...Funeral Service Industry...
...however, in the sense that it has been a national center of the funeral service industry since...
...that industry started to become more specialized and professionalized in the late nineteenth...
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Philip Armour and the Packing Industry, Louise Carroll Wade(
Authored Entry
) ...Philip Armour and the Packing Industry...
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Agricultural Machinery Industry, Fred Carstensen(
Authored Entry
) ...Agricultural Machinery Industry...
...closed down, and the agricultural machinery industry no longer held a significant place in the...
...646 people working in the agricultural implement industry in Chicago. Chicago soon attracted other...
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Museum of Science and Industry, Jonathan J. Keyes(
Authored Entry
) ...Museum of Science and Industry...
...million annually), ranking the Museum of Science and Industry as one of Chicago's premier tourist...
...The Museum of Science and Industry is one of the nation's oldest and largest institutions devoted to...
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Railroad Supply Industry, Mark R. Wilson(
Authored Entry
) ...Railroad Supply Industry...
...center of the railroad equipment and supply business, then one of the world's leading industries....
...of local residents were employed in the industry, which ranked as one of the area's largest. Even...
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Industry, Page 2, Ann Durkin Keating(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...Industry, Page 2...
...showcase headquarters on the site. Traditional industry generally balked at the high real estate...
...Goose Island Back | Page 1 | Page 2 | Forward Industry Deindustrialization on Goose Island , 1988...
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Industry, Page 1, Ann Durkin Keating(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...Industry, Page 1...
...Goose Island Back | Page 1 | Page 2 | Forward Industry Goose Island grew slowly over the course of...
...the nineteenth century. Virtually all of the industries noted above were represented along the river...
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Northwest Industries Inc., (
Business Dictionary
) ...Northwest Industries Inc...
...F. Farley, who changed its name to Farley Industries Inc. but kept the headquarters in Chicago. This...
...created a holding company called Northwest Industries in 1968. Four years later, when Northwest...
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Duchossois Industries Inc., (
Business Dictionary
) ...Duchossois Industries Inc...
...2001, Thrall was purchased by Trinity Industries of Dallas, Texas, a leading railcar manufacturer....
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Helene Curtis Industries Inc., (
Business Dictionary
) ...Helene Curtis Industries Inc...
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ServiceMaster Industries Inc., (
Business Dictionary
) ...ServiceMaster Industries Inc...
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Tootsie Roll Industries Inc., (
Business Dictionary
) ...Tootsie Roll Industries Inc...
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IC Industries Inc., (
Business Dictionary
) ...IC Industries Inc...
...Illinois Central Industries was created in 1962 as a holding company for the Illinois Central...
...shops. The company changed its name to IC Industries in 1975, and it employed about 8,000 people in...
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Garment Industry Sweatshop at 132 Maxwell Street, 1905, Photographer: Chicago Daily News(
Historical Source
) ...Garment Industry Sweatshop at 132 Maxwell Street, 1905...
Date Created: 1905,
Date Depicted: 1905
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Plan of Chicago Promotional Campaign (Industry and Population Density Estimates in the Chicago Region), 1919, Creator: Chicago Plan Commission and Cook County Department of Highways(
Historical Source
) ...Plan of Chicago Promotional Campaign (Industry and Population Density Estimates in the Chicago...
Date Created: 1919,
Date Depicted: 1919
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The Chicago Area's Iron and Steel Industry, (
Map
) ...The Chicago Area's Iron and Steel Industry...
...Chicago's earliest metal-working industries were small in scale, and located near the Chicago River...
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Economic Geography, Susan E. Hirsch(
Authored Entry
) ...in the western suburbs, but most of the new industries are centered elsewhere. The service sector is...
...manufacturing which spurred the city's growth. Industry determined the physical development of the...
...southern Illinois to fuel the city's homes and industries. Initial plans called for a deep-cut canal...
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Refining, Mark R. Wilson(
Authored Entry
) ...among the earliest locations of the petroleum industry, but when oil refining finally came to the...
...area at a time when an already robust oil industry was devoted to the production of illuminating...
...had been invested in the American refining industry, which already employed over 11,000 men and...
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Electronics, Emily Clark and Mark R. Wilson(
Authored Entry
) ...of the leaders of the U.S. electronics industry. As the manufacture of car radios and televisions...
...which were at the heart of the computing industry; it also sold nearly half of the world's cellular...
...continued to represent Chicago in what had become a highly competitive and dynamic global industry....
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