| 1811 |
Merriam Center, Howard Rosen(
Authored Entry
) ...located on the campus of the University of Chicago in Hyde park , was home to the International City...
...belonged to Louis H. Brownlow and University of Chicago political scientist Charles E. Merriam....
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| 1812 |
Museum of Contemporary Art, Judith Russi Kirshner(
Authored Entry
) ...organization supported by a dedicated group of Chicago collectors and patrons to a national...
...of Mies van der Rohe as well as the tradition of Chicago architecture , the $46 million structure is...
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| 1813 |
Nation of Islam, The, Aminah McCloud(
Authored Entry
) ...headquarters to Temple No. 2 on the South Side of Chicago in the early 1930s. Elijah Muhammad and...
...founded the newspaper Mr. Muhammad Speaks in Chicago, which in a very short time became one of the...
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| 1814 |
Nightclubs, Richard A. Wang(
Authored Entry
) ...Chicago nightlife grew rapidly in the wake of the 1871 fire and then again in conjunction with the...
...longest continuously operating nightclub in Chicago. Performers such as singer/comedian Joe E. Lewis...
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| 1815 |
Playground Movement, Julia Sniderman Bachrach(
Authored Entry
) ...were opened in nine major cities including Chicago. Settlement houses or civic groups opened early...
...the Municipal Science Club began studying Chicago's need for additional “breathing spaces,” and in...
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| 1816 |
Bowman Dairy Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...of the 1930s, Bowman employed over 3,000 Chicago-area residents. The company continued to carry on a...
...J. R. Bowman & Co. In 1885, Bowman entered the Chicago market by purchasing the milk business of M....
...to sell their St. Louis operation and move to Chicago, where they formed the Bowman Dairy Co. This...
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| 1817 |
Follett Corp., (
Business Dictionary
) ...the mid-1970s, Follett had about 800 employees in the Chicago area, and annual sales were around $50...
...of the 1990s, Follett—based in River Grove, just west of Chicago—reached $1 billion in annual sales...
...and employed about 2,000 people in the Chicago area....
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| 1818 |
Fraser & Chalmers, (
Business Dictionary
) ...Allis-Chalmers became a leading employer in the Chicago area. As late as the mid-1970s, it had over...
...In 1872, Thomas Chalmers founded this Chicago manufacturer of mining machinery, boilers, and pumps....
...company employed about 1,000 workers at its Chicago plant and had become one of the world's largest...
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| 1819 |
LaSalle National Bank, (
Business Dictionary
) ...In the early years of the new century, LaSalle was Chicago's second-largest bank, with more than one...
...branches in the Midwest, over $50 billion in assets, and 10,000 employees in the Chicago area....
...National Builders' Bank was chartered in downtown Chicago in 1927 and managed to weather the Great...
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| 1820 |
Northwest Industries Inc., (
Business Dictionary
) ...Farley Industries Inc. but kept the headquarters in Chicago. This company had about 50,000 employees...
...but in 1991 it went bankrupt and was dismantled. See also Chicago & North Western Railroad Co....
...After Frank Lyon bought the Chicago & North Western Railway in 1956, he installed a young lawyer...
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| 1821 |
Wirtz Corp., (
Business Dictionary
) ...of $700 and employed about 1,600 people in the Chicago area. The real-estate arm of the corporation...
...of the next century. Wirtz Corp. also owned the Chicago Blackhawks hockey team and co-owned the...
...Center arena—where the Blackhawks and the Chicago Bulls basketball team played—with Bulls majority...
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| 1822 |
Capsonic Group LLC, (
Business Dictionary
) ...Michigan and Mexico. With nearly 200 employees—most in the Chicago area—and revenues approaching $...
...60 million, Capsonic Group ranked among Chicago's largest minority-owned firms....
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| 1823 |
Brunswick Corp., (
Business Dictionary
) ...billion and it employed over 1,200 people in the Chicago area and about 25,000 worldwide. During the...
...Brunswick was doing over $4 billion in annual sales and employed about 1,000 Chicago-area residents....
...had begun to make billiard tables in Cincinnati, Chicago, and other cities. In 1873, when Brunswick...
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| 1824 |
St. John, IN, Erik Gellman(
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) ...the late twentieth century the town attracted Chicago commuters, with population growing from 1,757...
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| 1825 |
Spaghetti Bowl, David M. Young(
Authored Entry
) ...University of Illinois campus built nearby, which for a time was known as the Chicago Circle campus....
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| 1826 |
Beecher, IL, Erik Gellman(
Authored Entry
) ...incorporation in 1883 and the arrival of the Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad in 1905. Beecher...
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| 1827 |
Tinker to Evers to Chance, David M. Oshinsky(
Authored Entry
) ...formed the legendary infield of the championship Chicago Cubs teams of the early 1900s. The slick...
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| 1828 |
Valparaiso University, Mel Doering(
Authored Entry
) ...second only to Harvard. (The University of Chicago was third; state schools had not yet become the...
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| 1829 |
Eastern Rite Catholics, Brandon Johnson(
Authored Entry
) ...common to Eastern Orthodoxy. Most of the Chicago area's Eastern Rite Catholics are Ukrainians ,...
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| 1830 |
Stateway Gardens, Erik Gellman(
Authored Entry
) ...over the project's underground economy . In 2001 the Chicago Housing Authority began the process of...
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