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171 Industrial Workers of the World, Melvyn Dubofsky( Authored Entry )
...moving to North Halsted Street, where it remained through the 1980s. i3149 Cover of IWW songbook,...
172 Lindenhurst, IL, Douglas Knox( Authored Entry )
...starter homes to war veterans. The company remained the primary developer into the early 1980s,...
173 Underground Economy, Christopher Thale( Authored Entry )
...earners. After the war, extensive taxation remained, to pay for the war debt and the enlarged size...
...beginning in the 1970s, large street gangs remained in the drug business. Their activities spread...
174 Food Processing: Local Market, Bruce Kraig( Authored Entry )
...Candies in the Logan Square community area, remained small concerns dedicated to neighborhood...
...rolls. Others, such as Fontana Brothers Bakery, remained in their ethnic enclaves. The cracker, sold...
175 Mail Order, Mark R. Wilson( Authored Entry )
...it had been in 1900. Nevertheless, Chicago remained home to several leading companies in an evolving...
176 Domestic Work and Workers, Daniel A. Graff( Authored Entry )
...the low pay and status associated with it remained the same. In her 1999 investigations, journalist...
177 Work, David Moberg( Authored Entry )
...World War II . Although trade and transportation remained key, in the mid-nineteenth century small...
...manufacturing at the end of the twentieth century remained more important in Chicago (18 percent of...
178 Transportation, H. Roger Grant( Authored Entry )
...as could ultimately survive, so half remained mere “paper towns. ” Water power and minerals added...
...traffic to the railroads after 1855, the canal remained important for bulk movements until the end...
179 Railroad Supply Industry, Mark R. Wilson( Authored Entry )
...and the airplane, the railway supply business remained an important part of Chicago's economy; but,...
...of local firms within the national industry remained relatively high. In the early 1990s, workers at...
180 Mexicans, Gabriela F. Arredondo and Derek Vaillant( Authored Entry )
...cut nearly in half. By 1940 an estimated 16,000 Mexicans remained within Chicago. Amid the tumult...
...the New Deal and World War II , those Mexicans who remained seized new opportunities for employment,...
181 Prospect Heights, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry( Authored Entry )
...northwest suburbs earlier, Prospect Heights remained in the shadows of settlement until the 1930s....
182 River Forest, IL, Aaron Harwig( Authored Entry )
...River Forest's population hit its peak of 13,402 in1970 and has remained fairly constant since then....
183 Robbins, IL, Andrew Wiese( Authored Entry )
...debts. Economic woes notwithstanding, Robbins remained one of the few places in greater Chicago...
184 Baths, Public, Marilyn Thornton Williams( Authored Entry )
...bathhouses. By the 1970s only one bathhouse remained open, to serve Skid Row residents, and that too...
185 Vernon Hills, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry( Authored Entry )
...via the Soo Line Railroad . The community remained agricultural until the 1950s, when developers...
186 Welfare Capitalism, Stuart Brandes( Authored Entry )
...in other “fringe benefits,” but it generally remained faithful to the historic goals of encouraging...
187 Winnetka, IL, Elizabeth S. Fraterrigo( Authored Entry )
...Since the 1960s, Winnetka's population has remained below 13,000. At the close of the twentieth...
188 Costa Ricans, Robert Morrissey( Authored Entry )
...the teams dissolved in the 1990s, soccer has remained a major pastime for many Costa Ricans in...
189 Glaciation, Ardith K. Hansel( Authored Entry )
...moraines mark positions where the ice margin remained for tens to hundreds of years while glacier...
190 Motorola Inc., Timothy J. Gilfoyle( Authored Entry )
...cutting measures. By 2002, however, Motorola remained one of Chicago's largest corporations, with...

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