| 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...
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| 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...
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| 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...
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| 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...
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| 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...
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| 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...
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| 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...
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| 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...
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| 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...
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| 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...
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| 1793 |
True Value Hardware, (
Business Dictionary
) ...the company employed about 1,000 people in the Chicago area. In 1997, after Cotter & Co. merged with...
...became known as the TruServ Corp. Based in Chicago, TruServ was a member-owned cooperative supplying...
...$4 billion and nearly 2,000 employees in the Chicago area. See also Hibbard, Spencer, Bartlett & Co....
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| 1794 |
Batavia, IL, Marilyn Robinson(
Authored Entry
) ...The Windmill City. ” Following the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 , quarries in Batavia shipped Niagara...
...produced most of the newsprint used by the Chicago Tribune, and the Western Paper Bag Company made...
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| 1795 |
Tax Strikes, David T. Beito(
Authored Entry
) ...Between 1931 and 1933, Chicago and Cook County experienced one of the largest tax strikes in...
...budget of over $600,000 and a radio show in Chicago. But it suffered a demoralizing blow in October...
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| 1796 |
Torrens Title, John T. Durkin(
Authored Entry
) ...a substantial improvement over past systems. The Chicago fire of 1871 destroyed Cook County real-...
...estate records. As Chicago and Cook County were expanding rapidly, providing an adequate...
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| 1797 |
Traction Ordinances, Harold L. Platt(
Authored Entry
) ...Passed in February 1907 by the Chicago City Council, the traction ordinances represented the...
...The roots of the controversy lay in Chicago's tremendous growth in size and population following the...
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| 1798 |
DePaul University, Sarah Fenton(
Authored Entry
) ...institution with campuses in the heart of Chicago and its outlying suburbs, DePaul is also (since...
...its founding Vincentian fathers traveled to Chicago from LaSalle, Illinois, and established a church...
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| 1799 |
Bungalows, Joseph C. Bigott(
Authored Entry
) ...houses built throughout the United States. In Chicago, a few architects had begun to design and...
...of all residential structures in metropolitan Chicago were less than 10 years old, many of them...
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| 1800 |
Capital Punishment, Jess Maghan(
Authored Entry
) ...murder, arson, horse stealing, and rape. In Chicago, a bitter legacy of justice is found in the 171...
...penalty remained a controversial issue in Chicago's legal and civic community. Execution by lethal...
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| 1801 |
Coal City, IL, Brandon Johnson(
Authored Entry
) ...the vast coal reserves that lie just south of Chicago. Peter Lansett, a Canadian , has been credited...
...made Coal City a major contributor of coal to Chicago. By the twentieth century, the manufacturing...
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| 1802 |
Deerfield, IL, Thomas A. Auger(
Authored Entry
) ...area and used the nearby Des Plaines , Fox , and Chicago Rivers as a means of transportation. Jacob...
...as timber, venison, and wheat to the markets in Chicago as well as to bring supplies to the area. In...
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