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Guyanese, Robert Morrissey(
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) ...with other West Indians to work in war industries during World War II . Some settled in Chicago...
...ministers, nurses, and in other health care industry positions. Still others went into real estate...
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Cicero, IL, Betsy Gurlacz(
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) ...began to develop around these and other industries, such as the Brighton Silver Smelting & Refining...
...the 1880s new residents were drawn to the industries in the northern part of the town along the...
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Contested Spaces, Janice L. Reiff(
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) ...marks, as did neighborhoods where older industries had closed or moved to new suburban locations....
...space. For generations, many of the region's industries created toxic waste and pollutants along...
...incomes, had fewer housing choices. As industries started to close, communities from Waukegan to...
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Elgin, IL, David Buisseret(
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) ...product also became widely known. Other Elgin industries included a large shoe factory and a number...
...Interstate 90 to the north. Most of its heavy industries have disappeared, but it enjoys a quiet...
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Antioch, IL, Douglas Knox(
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) ...1905 and began to build more brick buildings. Other industries slowly developed alongside tourism....
...The ice harvesting industry took advantage of the area's lakes and rail service to Chicago....
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Hobart, IN, Elin B. Christianson(
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) ...hub. Brickmaking was Hobart's most important industry in the nineteenth century. Small brickyards...
...a residential community for employees of area industries. From the late 1930s through the 1960s,...
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Illinois Central Railroad, John P. Hankey(
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) ...the company created a holding company, IC Industries, and diversified into real-estate development,...
...Rail ( Metra ) in 1988. A year later, IC Industries spun off the rest of its railroad assets, which...
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Indians, Vinay Lal(
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) ...in the sciences, medicine, the computer industry, and management. The number of Indian students at...
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Lincolnwood, IL, Laura Milsk(
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) ...Lincolnwood in 1936. Lincolnwood's institutions, industries, and clubs continued to grow along with...
...1942) spurred growth and increased other industry relocation to the village. The Lincolnwood Jewish...
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McHenry, IL, John D. Schroeder(
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) ...along the Fox River. A boat-building industry flourished; marine recreation still remains important....
...Drive, and Green Street). A new wave of industry, including automotive components, electronics , and...
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Midway Airport, Derek Vaillant(
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) ...itself following the deregulation of the airline industry in 1978. By the 1980s and 1990s, Chicago's...
...the fallen giant. Deregulation of the airline industry spurred entrepreneurship by new carriers and...
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Mongolians, Tracy Steffes(
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) ...status, forcing them to enter trades and service industries, including rug and carpet cleaning,...
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Movie Palaces, Douglas Gomery(
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) ...on the experience of Chicago's meat packing industry with cooling, Barney Balaban convinced the...
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Pacific Islanders, Tracy Steffes(
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) ...the military, airline , and entertainment industries began to settle in Chicago and attract friends...
...are not involved in the entertainment industry, music has been a primary way that the community has...
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Classical Music, Mark Clague and J. Kimo Williams(
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) ...Chicago had become the third largest music industry center in the United States by grossing over $7...
...Chicago entrepreneurs invested heavily in the music industry, and the city's manufacturing and...
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Multicentered Chicago, Henry C. Binford(
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) ...economy was driven by railroads , heavy industry, and European immigration. The city did not share...
...huge numbers of both. The expansion of heavy industry and the flood of newcomers, combined with the...
...with the rise of railroads and heavy industry, the post–World War II transformation coincided with...
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Mexicans, Gabriela F. Arredondo and Derek Vaillant(
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) ...and semiskilled laborers in agriculture and heavy industry, including the Rock Island, Santa Fe, and...
...as word spread of ready work in Chicago and as industry successfully lobbied to exempt Mexicans from...
...primarily in steel, meatpacking , and railroad industries. Mexican life in Chicago transcended the...
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| 178 |
Quarrying, Stone Cutting, and Brick Making, Mark R. Wilson(
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) ...lime production. In Chicago's building materials industry, no less important than the quarrying and...
...of thousands of local buildings and homes stood as evidence of the past vitality of the industry....
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Rock Music, Clark “Bucky” Halker(
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) ...company rapidly emerged as major force in the industry. The owners received skillful assistance from...
...music scene continued to flourish, but within industry circles the city's blue-collar credentials...
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World War I, Sean J. LaBat(
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) ...men. These new opportunities, mainly in heavy industry, stimulated the Great Migration of African...
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