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Global Chicago, Michael P. Conzen(
Interpretive Digital Essay
) ...as the hub of western land routes and the industry-friendly water routes of the Great Lakes to the...
...by the 1890s. From the agricultural machinery industry (embodied by McCormick's reaper firm) of the...
...Great Lakes shipping network that diffused the industry from Pennsylvania to the Middle West and to...
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Manufacturing Climate, Janice L. Reiff(
Rich Map (Essay)
) ...the transformations that were taking place in industry, transportation, marketing, and urban...
...the rapid expansion taking place in Chicago industry, but they obscure other transformations taking...
...scale operations still did not dominate Chicago industry, they were beginning to change many sectors...
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Work Culture, Lynn Y. Weiner(
Authored Entry
) ...in the stockyards, ironworks, and steel industries. Chinese came in lesser numbers and looked...
...personal work culture of artisans faded as industry grew. By the end of the century, factories had...
...1880 over 75,000 Chicago workers labored in industries including meatpacking , clothing production,...
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Land Use, Richard D. Mariner(
Authored Entry
) ...canal and rail corridors where warehouses, industries, and housing for canal and railroad workers...
...north of downtown Chicago provided captains of industry and civic leaders with an elegant, verdant,...
...development, replacing their use for industry and disposal of waste. Similarly, techniques for...
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Medical Manufacturing and Pharmaceuticals, Beatrix Hoffman(
Authored Entry
) ...Chicago's preeminence in both medicine and industry has made the city a manufacturing center for...
...scales, and hospital clothing. Medline Industries, founded in Chicago in 1910 as a manufacturer of...
...attempts to dominate the medical products industry began in the 1950s, when it purchased other major...
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Trade Publications, Kathleen L. Endres(
Authored Entry
) ...press has never been dominated by a single industry, business, or association. The Chicago Daily...
...newspapers and newsletters because an industry, profession, or business needed information. Yet it...
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Coal Mining, Mark R. Wilson(
Authored Entry
) ...of these early miners were veterans of the industry who emigrated from Scotland and England during...
...steadily over the next few years. The local industry was hit by a deadly disaster in February 1883,...
...and smaller piece of Illinois' large coal industry. By 1892, Will County mines produced only 114,000...
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Great Migration, James Grossman(
Authored Entry
) ...European immigrants to the least skilled jobs in industry, and African Americans had even fewer...
...strikebreakers, notably in the meatpacking industry in 1904. When World War I halted immigration...
...in the 1940s and 1950s. The expansion of industry during World War II again provided the stimulus....
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Harvey, IL, Joseph C. Bigott(
Authored Entry
) ...contained 5,395 residents, a bank, and 11 industries. However, in 1895 residents voted by a slight...
...29,071, with many residents employed by local industries. In 1966, Dixie Square shopping mall opened...
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Joliet, IL, Robert E. Sterling(
Authored Entry
) ...labor force and its steel mill attracted other industries. Wire mills, coke plants, stove companies,...
...businesses in the Joliet area. Other Joliet industries have ranged from the production of greeting...
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Lower West Side, Gabriela F. Arredondo(
Authored Entry
) ...alongside Czechs and Bohemians in diverse industries: from Schoenhofen Brewery (18th and Canalport)...
...individual resources. In the 1950s many of the industries that formed the economic backbone of these...
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Musical Instrument Manufacturing, Craig H. Roell(
Authored Entry
) ...as well as Cable were among the strongest corporations in the industry. In the era before radio and...
...instruments were a crucial part of the music industry. Chicago firms produced many brands associated...
...important single source of instruments. The music industry ceased to be dominated by the piano and...
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Packinghouse Unions, Rick Halpern(
Authored Entry
) ...Chicago's important meatpacking industry experienced three successive waves of unionization . The...
...dedicated to the unionization of the meat industry . Its founders realized that control of the...
...but lost a 1948 attempt to shut down the packing industry. Racial tensions did not surface after the...
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Waste, Hazardous, Don Coursey(
Authored Entry
) ...waste dumping in 1966. In 1969 Chicago compelled industries to pretreat pollutants prior to release....
...hazardous waste accompanied the development of industry in Chicago. From slaughterhouse activities...
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Agricultural Journals, Chas. P. Raleigh(
Authored Entry
) ...establishment of agricultural standards through accurate recording and reporting of the industry....
...agricultural hinterland, an emerging publishing industry, and a need for specialized information...
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Morton Grove, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
Authored Entry
) ...black; 4 percent were Hispanic. While other industries came into the area, greenhouse operations...
...president under Benjamin Harrison. In 1889 new industry came with the Poehlmann Brothers Company...
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Broadview, IL, Patricia Krone Rose(
Authored Entry
) ...aside nearly half of Broadview's land for industry. Land along 25th Avenue and the Indiana Harbor...
...was designated as industrial. A wide variety of industries located here, including International...
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Artists, Education and Culture of, George H. Roeder, Jr.(
Authored Entry
) ...world felt Chicago's influence in politics and industry decades before the city became a presence in...
...advanced students. The burgeoning publishing industry also mostly employed men, although women...
...such as the Chicago Association of Arts and Industries, founded in 1922, far surpassed those in any...
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Shipbuilding, Theodore J. Karamanski(
Authored Entry
) ...it was the site of a thriving shipbuilding industry. As the port has waned so has shipbuilding. The...
...canal boats, and schooners. When the shipping industry was booming the Miller Brothers dry docks,...
...in 1959 promised a resurgence of the shipping industry in Chicago. Any resurgence was forestalled,...
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Vacation Spots, Derek Vaillant(
Authored Entry
) ...century, competition in the tourism and airline industry, along with Chicago's national status as an...
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