| 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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| 1701 |
American Fur Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...1808 by John Jacob Astor, was the first big business enterprise to operate in Chicago. Between 1817,...
...when the company first sent traders to Chicago, and 1832, American Fur was the most important...
...in the tiny town. Several of the company's Chicago employees during the 1820s, including John...
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| 1702 |
Field (Marshall) & Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...the Target Corp. , it employed nearly 16,000 Chicago-area residents, who worked at Target discount...
...In 1856, the 21-year-old Marshall Field moved to Chicago from Massachusetts. He immediately began...
...$8 million for a natural history museum in Chicago that would bear his name), Shedd became president...
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| 1703 |
Link-Belt Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...Link-Belt employed over 1,000 people in the Chicago area. In 1967, Link-Belt, with annual sales...
...FMC Corp. , which moved its own headquarters from California to Chicago in 1972. See also FMC Corp....
...1875, with the aid of John C. Coonley of the Chicago Malleable Iron Co. and other investors, Ewart...
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| 1704 |
Auburn Gresham, Eileen M. McMahon(
Authored Entry
) ...of the Town of Lake that was annexed into Chicago in 1889. Earlysettlers were German and Dutch truck...
...no overt Protestant -Catholic hostility here as in other Chicago neighborhoods, probably because few...
...in Memphis on April 4, 1968, set off riots in Chicago and across the county. Many white residents in...
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| 1705 |
North Lawndale, Amanda Seligman(
Authored Entry
) ...the Great Fire of 1871 and then bustled as Chicago's Jewish ghetto. The neighborhood's landscape was...
...an improved toll road . The extension of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad prompted further...
...in this portion of Cicero Township . After Chicago annexed the eastern part of the township in 1869,...
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| 1706 |
Hull House Maps Its Neighborhood, (
Interpretive Digital Essay (Gallery)
) ...Northwestern University Illustration 5796 4428 Chicago School of Sociology Hull House Wage Map No. 1...
...Northwestern University Illustration 5706 4410 Chicago School of Sociology Hull House Settlement...
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| 1707 |
Arnold, Schwinn & Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...Schwinn family to a group of investors led by Chicago's Sam Zell. In 1993, Schwinn's general offices...
...the midst of a national bicycle craze, Ignaz Schwinn (who arrived in Chicago from Germany in 1891)...
...and partner Adolph Arnold (a Chicago meat industry veteran) founded a bicycle manufacturing company....
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| 1708 |
Consolidated Foods Corp., (
Business Dictionary
) ...century as Sara Lee Corp. was the descendant of a Chicago grocery store called Sprague, Warner & Co....
...enterprise based in Baltimore. The new Chicago-based company, at first called Sprague Warner- Kenny...
...the company employed over 2,000 people in the Chicago area and about 75,000 more worldwide. By this...
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| 1709 |
Container Corp. of America, (
Business Dictionary
) ...merged with Montgomery Ward Co. , the giant Chicago-based retailer; the new parent company was...
...This company's 1998 merger with the Chicago-based Stone Container Corp. , which created the Smurfit-...
...of Container Corp. were again managed from Chicago. See also Ward (Montgomery) & Co. and Stone...
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| 1710 |
Matteson, IL, Ian McGiver(
Authored Entry
) ...57. Matteson is not the most exclusive of Chicago's south suburbs, but the median household income...
...substantially higher than in either the city of Chicago or Cook County. More than 80 percent of the...
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