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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(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...and women continued to work in manufacturing industries, as laborers, and in the service sector of...
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Balaban & Katz, Geoffrey Klingsporn(
Authored Entry
) ...success lasted until 1946, when federal action dismantled vertical integration in the film industry....
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Department Stores, Jeffrey A. Brune(
Authored Entry
) ...important figure in the rise of this local industry was Marshall Field, and his establishment has...
...work in department stores, even though the industry paid them extremely low wages. As women came to...
...recent development in Chicago's department store industry. Many of these new stores that have opened...
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Platinum Technology Inc., (
Business Dictionary
) ...being billed as the harbinger of a burgeoning Internet industry in Chicago, quickly sank along with...
...the rest of the high-tech industry of the early 2000s....
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Overview, Ann Durkin Keating(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...years, it has become desirable that the heavy industry not be in the core of the city. It affects...
...One longtime Goose Island resident disagreed, arguing for new industries to come to the island: "...
...If it's a choice between industry or the new development [residential], I'd prefer the industry...
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Global Chicago, Michael P. Conzen(
Authored Entry
) ...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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Hotels, Molly W. Berger(
Authored Entry
) ...Chicago also became a center for the hotel industry with three of the major hotel trade journals...
...production and retailing perfected for the hotel industry by E. M. Statler. The hotel's size and...
...temporarily come to a halt. Chicago's hotel industry continued to expand during the second half of...
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South Chicago, David Bensman(
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) ...growth. Following the Great Fire of 1871 , industry migrated south from Chicago proper. Swedes ,...
...flourishing steel, grain, railroad, and lumber industries. The Brown Iron and Steel Company opened...
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Agriculture, Chas. P. Raleigh(
Authored Entry
) ...vastness of the world's grain trade that will define Chicago's agricultural industry for the future....
...support for the growing beef cattle and hog industry of the mid-1800s. As the railroad link between...
...transportation decentralized the meatpacking industry away from the Midwestern transportation...
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Prostitution, Cynthia M. Blair(
Authored Entry
) ...At the same time, new branches of the sex industry, including gentlemen's clubs and escort services,...
...Chicago's sex trade has been an adaptable industry and has undergone numerous transformations since...
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Bridgeview, IL, Ronald S. Vasile(
Authored Entry
) ...of a diversified economy, split between industry, retail, and service-oriented businesses. The...
...Lake Michigan water became available, more industries moved to Bridgeview. The Indiana Harbor Belt...
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Des Plaines, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
Authored Entry
) ...for both suburban residential growth and light industry. In 1955 Des Plaines became home to the...
...the extension of the North West Plank Road brought industry and laborers. In 1873 the settlement was...
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