| 1681 |
Ravinia, Michael H. Ebner(
Authored Entry
) ...Walter Hendl, associate conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra , served as the first artistic...
...patrons organized a campaign directed by Chicago philanthropist Louis Eckstein to purchase the...
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| 1682 |
Dominican University, Sarah Fenton(
Authored Entry
) ...in library science was the only such program in metropolitan Chicago and one of two in the state....
...Forest , an affluent suburb eight miles west of Chicago. Though no longer a frontier school, Rosary...
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| 1683 |
Park Forest Centre, Ann Durkin Keating(
Authored Entry
) ...most successful shopping centers in the Chicago area. Despite initial success and rapid expansion,...
...A shopping mall opened in 1949 south of Chicago in the visionary new planned suburb of Park Forest....
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| 1684 |
Camp Douglas, Theodore J. Karamanski(
Authored Entry
) ...a high mortality rate: one prisoner in seven died in Chicago. Poor sanitation, hastily constructed...
...the camp, but only the abortive November 1864 “Chicago Conspiracy” roused broad concern. Federal...
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| 1685 |
Samuel Insull: Electric Magnate, Harold L. Platt(
Authored Entry
) ...a monopoly of central station service in Chicago for the renamed Commonwealth Edison Company. Insull...
...1892, Insull became the president of the Chicago Edison Company, one of several electric companies...
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| 1686 |
Fire Limits, Robin Einhorn(
Authored Entry
) ...not emerge until the 1920s. After the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 , the fire limit was the focus of a...
...or improvements to old wood buildings. The Chicago Common Council enacted the city's first limit in...
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| 1687 |
Johnson Publishing Co., Adam Green(
Authored Entry
) ...when the company employed about 1,000 people in the Chicago area. By the end of the century, Johnson...
...moved with his family from Arkansas City to Chicago in 1933, when he was a teenager. In 1942, after...
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| 1688 |
Maxwell Street, Ira Berkow(
Authored Entry
) ...fields for the University of Illinois at Chicago . What remained of the market was moved several...
...hundred years, Maxwell Street was one of Chicago's most unconventional business —and residential—...
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| 1689 |
Northwest Community Organization, Thomas J. Jablonsky and Paul-Thomas Ferguson(
Authored Entry
) ...among other things, unfair distribution of Chicago's home-improvement loans, high utility rates, and...
...Organization served the West Town area of Chicago as “an organization of organizations,” unifying...
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| 1690 |
Palmer House, Anne Moore(
Authored Entry
) ...Loop business district, the Art Institute of Chicago , and downtown theaters . Too, its vast meeting...
...was long the pinnacle of grandeur and luxury in Chicago and was for decades the hotel of choice for...
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| 1691 |
Polish Roman Catholic Union of America, Joseph John Parot(
Authored Entry
) ...it listed more than 300 lodges in the greater Chicago area and nearly three times that number in 23...
...Theodore Gieryk, it held its first convention in Chicago the following year, at Reverend Barzynski's...
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| 1692 |
Illinois Bell Telephone Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...when it employed about 20,000 people in the Chicago area and collected nearly $20 billion in annual...
...serving most of the phone customers in the Chicago area were now located in San Antonio, Texas....
...three years later, it became part of the Chicago Telephone Co. By the beginning of the twentieth...
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| 1693 |
Calumet Park, IL, Joseph C. Bigott(
Authored Entry
) ...The incidents attracted the attention of Chicago Alderman Robert Shaw, whose protests against the...
...all-white police force provided headlines for Chicago papers. Fearful of gangs , the village created...
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| 1694 |
Housing, Mail-Order, Mark S. Harmon(
Authored Entry
) ...over $11,000,000 in mortgages were liquidated. Chicago-area communities that had large rail sidings...
...a list of more than 200 potential ones. Many Chicago suburban communities like Elgin , Glen Ellyn ,...
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| 1695 |
Lindenhurst, IL, Douglas Knox(
Authored Entry
) ...prior owner, Ernst Lehmann, son of the weal- thy Chicago department store merchant who founded Lake...
...developments were in suburbs much closer to Chicago. The pace of building accelerated in the 1970s,...
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| 1696 |
Neighborhood Succession, Steven Essig(
Authored Entry
) ...half of the twentieth century, class change in Chicago neighborhoods was generally accompanied by a...
...late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century Chicago, this process often involved the departure of...
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| 1697 |
Armour & Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...another 1,400 men and 400 women worked for its Chicago-area auxiliaries, which produced soap, glue,...
...period. In 1959, Armour stopped slaughtering in Chicago. In 1970, Armour was bought by the Greyhound...
...of the Civil War. In 1875, he moved to Chicago to take charge of Armour & Co. (a firm owned by...
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| 1698 |
Pepper Construction Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...under a newly formed holding company in Chicago, Pepper Construction Group LLC. Pepper Construction...
...Co. continued to operate out of Chicago in the early 2000s, claiming about 1,000 employees and $900...
...shop at Marshall Field & Co. , the leading Chicago retailer. His son, Stanley Pepper, started his...
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| 1699 |
Signode Steel Strapping Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...Fremont Murphy formed the Seal & Fastener Co. in Chicago. The company made steel strapping systems,...
...operations were transferred to Glenview, northwest of Chicago. By the early 1960s, when annual sales...
...company employed more than 1,000 people in the Chicago area. In 1964, when the company was renamed...
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| 1700 |
Crane Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...Richard Teller Crane, a nephew of Chicago lumber dealer Martin...
...Ryerson, moved to Chicago from New Jersey in 1855. Richard and his brother Charles soon formed R. T....
...it was making elevators as well. After the Chicago Fire of 1871 , the company decided to expand its...
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