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Lower West Side, Gabriela F. Arredondo(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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.(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
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) ...century, competition in the tourism and airline industry, along with Chicago's national status as an...
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Will County, Sarah S. Marcus(
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) ...county's hub of settlement, commerce, and industry. In the mid-nineteenth century, mining augmented...
...shift. Motivated by diminishing space for industry around Chicago and by the opening of the Sanitary...
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Drug Retailing, Rick Kogan(
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) ...furthered the growth of the drug retailing industry. Drugstores (often called apothecaries) began to...
...retailing business boomed because of two forces, industry and science. The Industrial Revolution,...
...European firms dominated the drug manufacturing industry and would until the 1920s, a late-1880s...
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Blue Island, IL, Martin Tuohy(
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) ...future Alsip industrial district. Landlocked industries left the city. During the 1990s, however,...
...the city appeared to revive slowly. Old industries such as Modern Drop Forge and Clark Oil...
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Inverness, IL, Ronald Martin(
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) ...itself to the adjoining towns. With no industry other than its private country club, residents...
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Demography, Walter Nugent(
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) ...tremendously in the age of railroads and heavy industry; outbound migration to southern California...
...within it, promoted mobility. Chicago's industries always seemed to demand workers, and from 1890 to...
...steel , meatpacking , the clothing and garment industry , printing and publishing , railroading, or...
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Lowell, IN, Steven Essig(
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) ...work in local manufacturing and other industries or commute to jobs in Chicago, Gary , Hammond , or...
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Air Quality, David Stradling(
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) ...to come. By the 1990s, a decline in heavy industry and effective regulation of auto emissions...
...soot. In addition to smoke, the numerous industries surrounding the slaughterhouses produced foul...
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Gurnee, IL, Mark Howard Long(
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) ...Gurnee. The concomitant growth of local industry and suburbanization led to a veritable population...
...important crossroads in the area. Water-powered industries serving the needs of local farmers opened...
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Puerto Ricans, Gina M. Pérez(
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) ...and women continued to work in manufacturing industries, as laborers, and in the service sector of...
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Balaban & Katz, Geoffrey Klingsporn(
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) ...success lasted until 1946, when federal action dismantled vertical integration in the film industry....
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