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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(
Authored Entry
) ...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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Waterfront, Dennis H. Cremin(
Authored Entry
) ...waterfront has been used for commerce, industry, and leisure . Chicago's position on a mid-...
...waterfront was primarily devoted to commerce and industry. Near the end of the nineteenth century,...
...the lakefront was spared much of the heavy industry and instead hosted some of the city's early...
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Blues, Adam Green(
Authored Entry
) ...South and the growth of the modern music industry; regional folk genius and ethnic entrepreneurial...
...musicians awaited the resurgence of the record industry. Tampa Red and Bill Broonzy were joined by...
...notably Kingston Mines) serving the tourist industry and predominantly white fans of blues. In 1984...
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Firefighting, Mark Tebeau(
Authored Entry
) ...Along with business leaders, the insurance industry sought to replace the volunteer fire department...
...increasingly activist and powerful insurance industry. As early as 1905, insurance companies began...
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Sauk Village, IL, Larry A. McClellan(
Authored Entry
) ...in 1957. Providing housing for workers in the industries of the region, the village went through...
...stagnation related to the fortunes of area industries. Since the 1970s, stronger involvement by the...
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Wayne, IL, Jane S. Teague(
Authored Entry
) ...electricity for streetlights. Only a few industries, including a hemp mill and the Morton Sand and...
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Chicago Times-Herald Race of 1895, Keith R. Gill(
Authored Entry
) ...Times-Herald. Hoping to promote this new industry and sell more papers, Kohlsaat announced on July...
...line was near the current Museum of Science and Industry. So new was the idea of the automobile to...
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Chicago Heights, IL, Dominic Candeloro(
Authored Entry
) ...successfully recruited large-scale heavy industries such as Inland Steel, and built the impressive...
...and Hill neighborhoods to be close to the heavy industries. The downtown area served as the retail,...
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Deportation and Repatriation, Francisco E. Balderrama(
Authored Entry
) ...of single men. They worked in a variety of industries, including railroads, meatpacking plants, and...
...survived the Great Depression, when major industries commonly awarded preference to workers of...
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Lynwood, IL, Larry A. McClellan(
Authored Entry
) ...Because of its easy access to Chicago and the industries of the Calumet region , several attempts...
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Unemployment, Alan Harris Stein(
Authored Entry
) ...innovation and foreign competition, devastated some long-established Chicago industries and...
...the industries dependent on them. The unemployment rate in Gary in 1990, for instance, was 17...
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