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Hart, Schaffner & Marx, (
Business Dictionary
) ...and other retailers; its headquarters remained in Chicago, where it employed about 1,000 people....
...Max Hart, German immigrants who arrived in Chicago as boys 14 years earlier, founded Harry Hart &...
...a target of one of the biggest strikes in Chicago. Hannah Shapiro, an 18-year-old Russian-born woman...
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| 1662 |
Burnham & Root, (
Business Dictionary
) ...and the Masonic Temple, which became Chicago's first 20-story building when it was completed in...
...his associates continued to design many notable Chicago buildings, including the Reliance Building;...
...the Field Museum, completed in 1920. Outside Chicago, major works of the Burnham firm included the...
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| 1663 |
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, (
Business Dictionary
) ...late 1980s, when it employed about 700 people in Chicago, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill was the city's...
...architecture firm. At the end of the 1990s, Chicago-area projects accounted for about one-third of...
...local workforce, it maintained offices in Chicago, New York, San Francisco, Washington DC, Los...
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| 1664 |
Building Trades and Workers, Richard Schneirov(
Authored Entry
) ...changes were well underway by midcentury, when Chicago experienced its greatest growth. With the...
...were often aided by a hands-off approach from Chicago police . In 1890–91, during construction of...
...for contractors. Under intense pressure from Chicago business, Democratic mayor Carter Harrison II...
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| 1665 |
Illinois Tool Works Inc., (
Business Dictionary
) ...in size by buying other companies, including Signode, another old Chicago-based fastener company. At...
...of the 1990s, Illinois Tool bought Premark, a Chicago-area company that made kitchen appliances and...
...sales and employed nearly 5,000 people in the Chicago area, which the company still called home....
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| 1666 |
Northwestern Terra Cotta Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...with the company. Included among the many landmark Chicago buildings for which Northwestern supplied...
...moldings were the Civic Opera House, the Chicago Theater, the Wrigley Building, and the Randolph...
...Tower. Northwestern's operations in Chicago declined alongside the construction industry during...
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| 1667 |
Ben Hecht: Lake Thoughts, (
Authored Entry
) ...In 1921, the Chicago Daily News began running a column by Ben Hecht entitled “One Thousand and...
...Afternoons. ” Ruminating on life in general and on Chicago more particularly, Hecht considered the...
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| 1668 |
Ida B. Wells: African Americans at the World's Columbian Exposition, (
Authored Entry
) ...a fierce opponent of lynching. She came to Chicago in 1893 to protest the exclusion of African...
...died in 1895, but Wells moved permanently to Chicago and became involved in a wide range of civic...
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| 1669 |
Philip Klutznick: Shopping as a Real-Estate Deal, (
Authored Entry
) ...century had a profound effect on the Chicago region. He was instrumental in the development of Park...
...shopping. Klutznick brought this perspective into Chicago in 1973, when Marshall Field's asked him...
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| 1670 |
Oswego, IL, Brandon Johnson(
Authored Entry
) ...Aurora owing to the latter's position on the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad . Oswego is home...
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| 1671 |
Council on Fine Arts, Steve Scott(
Authored Entry
) ...of the arts, the 15-member, mayor-appointed Chicago Council on Fine Arts (CCFA) began work in...
...arts groups. In 1984, the council (renamed the Chicago Office of Fine Arts) was combined with the...
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| 1672 |
Elburn, IL, Craig L. Pfannkuche(
Authored Entry
) ...the Loop. Named Blackberry Station when the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad built through the area...
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| 1673 |
Architecture: The Prairie School, H. Allen Brooks(
Authored Entry
) ...residential architectural movement that began in Chicago yet rapidly spread across the Midwest....
...seeing Wright's celebrated exhibition at the Chicago Architectural Club in March 1902. The studio...
...a post later assumed by Robinson. Among the Chicago-area homes designed during these years are the...
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| 1674 |
Naper Settlement, Harold R. Wilde(
Authored Entry
) ...outdoor historic village in metropolitan Chicago, began in 1969 as a cooperative effort between the...
...and print shops, the first hotel built west of Chicago, and the Martin Mitchell house (1883), deeded...
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| 1675 |
Belmont Cragin, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
Authored Entry
) ...and warehouses covered 11 acres, and the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad built a station at...
...workers to the area, which was annexed into Chicago as part of Jefferson Township in 1889. The Belt...
...playground. During the postwar years the Chicago Transit Authority extended its Belmont Street bus...
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| 1676 |
Brighton Park, Clinton E. Stockwell(
Authored Entry
) ...mills relocated to Blue Island , Illinois. The Chicago & Alton Railroad established a roundhouse in...
...In 1889 Brighton Park was annexed to the city of Chicago as part of Lake Township . By the 1880s and...
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| 1677 |
Gage Park, Clinton E. Stockwell(
Authored Entry
) ...that extended to the Southwest Side of Chicago. In the 1840s Germans settled there as farmers, and...
...as the town of Lake , which was annexed to Chicago in 1889. At that time, there were but 30 wood...
...the area. While Protestants tended to settle in Chicago Lawn (known more colloquially as Marquette...
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| 1678 |
Hegewisch, Erik Gellman(
Authored Entry
) ...first railroads across this terrain into Chicago in the 1850s. Originally part of Lake Township , it...
...years later. In 1889, Hegewisch was annexed to Chicago along with the rest of Hyde Park Township....
...lobbying for a Metra stop, a branch of the Chicago Public Library , and a $300,000 block grant to...
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| 1679 |
Hermosa, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
Authored Entry
) ...by railroad tracks and embankments. The Chicago & North Western Railroad line forms its western...
...south borders are hemmed by two lines of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad (CM&SP). To the...
...for a depot, which was named after him. Chicago annexed the area in 1889 under the name Hermosa, a...
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| 1680 |
Joliet, IL, Robert E. Sterling(
Authored Entry
) ...of stone for prison walls and cell houses. The Chicago Fire of 1871 spurred demand for stone and by...
...railroad carloads of stone per month to Chicago and other cities. The “City of Steel” emerged with...
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