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American Plan, Stuart Brandes(
Authored Entry
) ...Corporation branded union organizers in its Chicago mills as “German propagandists” and demanded...
...a convention of Midwestern employers meeting in Chicago formally designated the nonunion or “open...
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| 1762 |
Free Thought, Bruce C. Nelson(
Authored Entry
) ...was deist, not atheist. In nineteenth-century Chicago, freethinkers, many of them immigrants from...
...The Congregation of Bohemian Freethinkers of Chicago, Svobodna obec Chicagu, founded in 1870, became...
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| 1763 |
Fuerzas Armadas de Liberación Nacional (FALN), Gina M. Pérez(
Authored Entry
) ...institutions, and corporate headquarters in Chicago, New York, and Washington DC, which killed six...
...These members, as well as others arrested in Chicago in the early 1980s, were charged and found...
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| 1764 |
Graffiti, Mary Lackritz Gray(
Authored Entry
) ...also called spray can art , appeared in Chicago in the 1980s. It began, as in New York, with “tags”...
...Gude and “writer” Dzine, can be found in many Chicago neighborhoods, thus bringing graffiti art into...
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| 1765 |
Juvenile Courts, David S. Tanenhaus(
Authored Entry
) ...Located across the street from Hull House , Chicago's juvenile court symbolized the optimism of its...
...a generation, juvenile courts based on the Chicago model had been established in all the states...
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| 1766 |
Liberians, Tracy N. Poe(
Authored Entry
) ...in the United States, the Liberian community in Chicago consisted of a few scattered individuals who...
...the Organization of the Liberian Community, Chicago has become a destination for Liberians because...
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| 1767 |
Central Manufacturing District, Clinton E. Stockwell(
Authored Entry
) ...in the United States. Prince acquired the Chicago Junction Railroad at the turn of the century...
...as a switching line that transported goods from the Chicago Union Stock Yard to major trunk railroad...
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| 1768 |
Metra, David M. Young(
Authored Entry
) ...Metra, the commuter railroad division of Chicago's Regional Transportation Authority , was created...
...a 546-mile commuter railroad system in Chicago and the suburbs. Although the commuter railroad...
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| 1769 |
Ojibwa, Helen Hornbeck Tanner(
Authored Entry
) ...and northern Wisconsin began moving into the Chicago region in the 1760s as part of the tribal...
...Ste. Marie district, maintained a community at Chicago for several years. By 1810, the Ojibwa, known...
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| 1770 |
American Car & Foundry Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...suffered from the rise of the automobile and the airplane; the Chicago plant closed in 1950....
...railroad cars and bridges, was established in Chicago in 1866. By the early 1870s, with about 300...
...Car & Foundry Co. , which had offices in Chicago but was headquartered in New York City. During the...
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| 1771 |
American Steel Foundries, (
Business Dictionary
) ...to grow into the 1970s, when it employed about 2,500 Chicago-area residents. By 2002, Amsted reached...
...annual sales and employed fewer than 1,000 Chicago-area residents but over 9,000 people nationwide....
...of George M. Sargent, then based in the Chicago suburb of Englewood. The company's headquarters...
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| 1772 |
Field Enterprises Inc., (
Business Dictionary
) ...country. In 1959, Field Enterprises bought the Chicago Daily News, which had long been one of the...
...of Vancouver, which soon opened offices in Chicago. By this time, Field Enterprises had ceased to...
...a wealthy grandson of the founder of the giant Chicago company, entered the publishing business by...
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| 1773 |
Stewart-Warner Corp., (
Business Dictionary
) ...companies. By the late 1990s, Stewart-Warner's Chicago presence had dwindled to the 20 employees at...
...J. Clark—the same men who in 1897 had created the Chicago Flexible Shaft Co. (which became Sunbeam)—...
...it had about 375 workers at its factory on Chicago's Diversey Avenue. In 1912, after buying the...
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| 1774 |
Anglo-American Provision Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...National Packing Co. established by Armour, Swift, and other large Chicago packers....
...year, making it the third-largest packer in Chicago. By the end of the 1870s, using the name Anglo...
...to stand among the more important second-tier Chicago packers until 1902, when it became part of the...
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| 1775 |
National Biscuit Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...nearly 1,300 men and women at its bakeries in Chicago, one of which was built especially to produce...
...Nabisco) still had over 1,000 workers in the Chicago area. In 1985, Nabisco was purchased by tobacco...
...Reynolds but continued to operate out of the Chicago area. After 15 years of solid growth, Nabisco...
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| 1776 |
International Harvester Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...trucks. It employed about 2,500 people in the Chicago area, one-tenth of the number who once worked...
...of plows and reapers, decided to move to Chicago in 1847, when he and his partner Charles M....
...built a reaper factory on the north bank of the Chicago River. McCormick's mechanical reapers (which...
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| 1777 |
IC Industries Inc., (
Business Dictionary
) ...Minneapolis but maintained most of its operations in Chicago. See also Illinois Central Railroad ....
...that had been employing hundreds of workers in the Chicago area. During the early 1970s, the company...
...bought Pepsi-Cola General Bottlers Inc. of Chicago, as well Midas International Corp. , the Chicago-...
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| 1778 |
Gary, IN, Raymond A. Mohl(
Authored Entry
) ...southern shore of Lake Michigan 30 miles east of Chicago, Gary was the creation of the U.S. Steel...
...cities,” or industrial suburbs, growing up in Chicago's widening orbit of economic influence. The...
...9,000 Mexicans resided in Gary and nearby East Chicago , Indiana. Throughout its first half century,...
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| 1779 |
Horse Racing, Steven A. Riess(
Authored Entry
) ...Park Race Track, 1903. Photographer: Unknown. Source: Chicago Historical Society. FIGURE 1...
...Racing in turn-of-the-century metropolitan Chicago was very tenuous. In 1891, after horseman Edward...
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| 1780 |
Acme Steel Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...The Acme Flexible Clasp Co. was founded in Chicago in 1884. In 1899, the company merged with the...
...James E. MacMurray. The new company, based in Chicago, changed its name to the Acme Steel Goods Co....
...Depression), Acme employed about 1,400 Chicago-area residents. A new plant opened in Riverdale,...
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