| 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...
|
| 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...
|
| 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...
|
| 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...
|
| 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-...
|
| 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,...
|
| 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...
|
| 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,...
|
| 1781 |
Republic Steel Corp., (
Business Dictionary
) ...still employed about 5,000 people in the Chicago area. Republic was purchased by Texas-based steel...
...Republic's operations continued in southeastern Chicago for a time, a successive wave of additional...
...mills in Alabama; Youngstown, Ohio; and the Chicago area. In 1910, it employed about 900 men at its...
|
| 1782 |
Wilson Sporting Goods Co., John H. Long.(
Business Dictionary
) ...This Chicago-based manufacturer of athletic gear began in 1913 as Ashland Manufacturing, which was...
...1930s, the company's plant on Powell Avenue in Chicago employed about 800 people. By the middle of...
...States. The company's headquarters moved from Chicago to the suburb of River Grove in 1957. After...
|
| 1783 |
Stone Container Corp., (
Business Dictionary
) ...in annual sales and employed about 1,200 people in the Chicago area, where it made its headquarters....
...around 1888, Joseph H. Stone made his way to Chicago, where he worked as a cigar maker. By the late...
...factory at 42nd Place and Keeler Avenue in Chicago. In 1945, by which time the company owned another...
|
| 1784 |
Commonwealth Edison Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...The Western Edison Light Co. was founded in Chicago in 1882, three years after Thomas Edison...
...developed a practical light bulb. In 1887, Western Edison became the Chicago Edison Co. Samuel L....
...Insull became president of Chicago Edison in 1892; in 1897 Insull incorporated another electric...
|
| 1785 |
United Air Lines, (
Business Dictionary
) ...founded by William Boeing in 1927; it flew between Chicago and San Francisco. By 1931, Boeing Air...
...Air Transport, another airline that flew out of Chicago—was part of the United Aircraft & Transport...
...built its headquarters next to Midway (then Chicago Municipal) Airport. During the middle of World...
|
| 1786 |
Prospect Heights, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
Authored Entry
) ...two hundred cows supplied milk and butter to Chicago markets. Kennicott was said to have lived in...
|
| 1787 |
South Lawndale, Christopher R. Reed(
Authored Entry
) ...inmates, the Cook County Jail and the city of Chicago's House of Corrections add many nonHispanics...
...Technical Institute, part of the City Colleges of Chicago. By 2000, 91,071 people made their home in...
|
| 1788 |
Franklin Park, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
Authored Entry
) ...Pacific Railroad (Milwaukee Road tracks of the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad) laid...
...buyers with parades along LaSalle Street in Chicago. He offered free Sunday train rides to the...
|
| 1789 |
Lansing, IL, Dave Bartlett(
Authored Entry
) ...as large numbers of white ethnics moved in from Chicago. During the 1950s Lansing experienced its...
...of the Calumet and Glenwood stages of Lake Chicago. North and south of this ridge are deposits of...
|
| 1790 |
Olympia Fields, IL, John H. Long(
Authored Entry
) ...Amusement Park , which drew patrons from Chicago each summer from 1890 to 1913, occupied several...
...Illinois Central scheduled “golf specials” from Chicago to Olympia Fields and other clubs. An elite...
|
| 1791 |
Palos Heights, IL, Betsy Gurlacz(
Authored Entry
) ...Hills. Photographer: Robert C. Long. Source: Chicago Historical Society. FIGURE 1 The last remaining...
...northwest corner of town, train tracks ran to Chicago and Orland Park, although the nearest train...
|
| 1792 |
Illinois Central Railroad (Corporate History), (
Business Dictionary
) ...it sold much of this track to concentrate the Chicago–New Orleans corridor, its primary route since...
...the nineteenth century. In 1988, the IC sold its Chicago commuter lines to the Metropolitan Rail (...
...completed—ran down the length of the state, from Chicago and other northern towns all the way to the...
|
|
|