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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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Food Processing: Regional and National Market, Mark R. Wilson(
Authored Entry
) ...Keebler, Tootsie, and Wrigley, indicated that Chicago would remain at the center of the industry....
...evaporated milk. In processed dairy foods, the industry leader was James L. Kraft, who began selling...
...have dominated the American confectionery industry. William Wrigley, Jr. , founded his Chicago-based...
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Iron and Steel, David Bensman and Mark R. Wilson(
Authored Entry
) ...a variety of products. Only after the U.S. steel industry suffered a sudden decline in the 1970s did...
...The emergence of a large iron and steel industry in the Chicago region during the nineteenth century...
...most of the iron ore used by the American steel industry during its rise was mined in Minnesota and...
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Construction, Mark R. Wilson(
Authored Entry
) ...men of European descent still dominated the local industry, and established contractors had begun to...
...the field of construction. Few of the city's industries have employed more people, and few have been...
...of developments in the city's construction industry. The extraordinary growth of Chicago's built...
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Airlines, Liesl M. Orenic(
Authored Entry
) ...transportation center have made the city attractive to the airline industry from its beginning....
...The roots of the industry lie in the transport of mail for the U.S. Post Office. By the 1920s the...
...routes. Development of the early commercial airline industry grew from a combination of a federal...
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Insurance, Beatrix Hoffman(
Authored Entry
) ...an important place in the history of the industry. While Eastern cities were home to pioneering life...
...for African Americans . The insurance industry also helped to shape and reshape the physical city...
...the insurance world with the revelation that the industry was unprepared to meet such a massive...
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Clothing and Garment Manufacturing, Youngsoo Bae(
Authored Entry
) ...only 7,000 workers engaged in the clothing industry. The few manufacturers still remaining in the...
...in the early nineteenth century. In Chicago this industry developed rapidly after the Great Fire of...
...had ready-to-wear clothes made at their shop. The industry expanded in the next decade, as merchant-...
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Automobile Parts, Mark R. Wilson(
Authored Entry
) ...area companies continued to participate in what had become a highly competitive global industry....
...The manufacture of automobile parts was never one of Chicago's largest industries. Nevertheless,...
...the history of the auto parts industry cannot be written without Chicago-based companies. The...
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Printing, Paul F. Gehl(
Authored Entry
) ...years after World War I , Chicago's centrality in the industry developed into a regional industrial...
...Chicago developed a fully integrated printing industry. Newspapers in 1860 reported 29 printing...
...and numerous print distributors served the industry on a regional basis. Publishing houses fed the...
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Building Trades and Workers, Richard Schneirov(
Authored Entry
) ...The modern construction industry and organizations of journeymen and contractors originated in the...
...sympathy strikes into union control over the industry. The depression from 1893 to 1897, however,...
...the supremacy of the contractors in the industry. The first 11 years of the twentieth century were...
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Calumet River System, Christopher Thale(
Authored Entry
) ...Chicago began to fill up and expanding heavy industry found itself short on space did developers and...
...Calumet River was straightened and dredged. Industry began moving into the area in the 1870s, and by...
...the South Works of U.S. Steel, and other industries had been established in southeast Chicago and...
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