| 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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| 1711 |
Mount Prospect, IL, David MacLaren(
Authored Entry
) ...Electronics, and Eastman Kodak, or commuted to Chicago. By 1992, the village's chamber of commerce...
...Wisconsin Railroad (later renamed the Chicago & North Western) ran through Mount Prospect, but it...
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| 1712 |
Palos Park, IL, Betsy Gurlacz(
Authored Entry
) ...community for people commuting to jobs in Chicago. Palos Park's population (4,689 in 2000) contains...
...Southwest Highway and connected the area to Chicago. In the 1890s Palos Park became known as a...
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| 1713 |
Trout Valley, IL, Craig L. Pfannkuche(
Authored Entry
) ...horse-breeding farm owned by John Hertz of Chicago taxi and auto rental fame and, later, a Curtiss...
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| 1714 |
Union, IL, Craig L. Pfannkuche(
Authored Entry
) ...Platted in 1851 as a station on the Galena & Chicago Union Railroad , the village failed to prosper....
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| 1715 |
Volo, IL, Craig L. Pfannkuche(
Authored Entry
) ...of the Loop. Formed at the junction of the Chicago—Lake Geneva and Waukegan — Woodstock stage trails...
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| 1716 |
Braidwood, IL, Brandon Johnson(
Authored Entry
) ...Braidwood soon became a major coal supplier to Chicago. Irish , Welsh , Scottish , and Czech miners,...
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| 1717 |
Yorkville, IL, Brandon Johnson(
Authored Entry
) ...in local importance with the arrival of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad in 1870. Smaller...
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| 1718 |
Hebron, IN, Brandon Johnson(
Authored Entry
) ...only the 1863 arrival of the Pittsburgh, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad motivated significant growth....
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| 1719 |
Lowell, IN, Steven Essig(
Authored Entry
) ...and other industries or commute to jobs in Chicago, Gary , Hammond , or areas further south....
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| 1720 |
Gilberts, IL, Craig L. Pfannkuche(
Authored Entry
) ...in 1855 as Gilbert's Station along the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad , the community served as a...
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