| 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(
Authored Entry
) ...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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| 1831 |
Printer's Row, Erik Gellman(
Authored Entry
) ...Dearborn—features examples of the First Chicago School of Architecture , including the Duplicator...
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| 1832 |
Bootlegging, Christopher Thale(
Authored Entry
) ...turned so violent that gangs , alcohol, and crime became a permanent part of Chicago's reputation....
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| 1833 |
Crown Point, IN, Peggy Tuck Sinko(
Authored Entry
) ...Point was a popular elopement destination for Chicago-area couples because there was no waiting...
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| 1834 |
Lily Lake, IL, Erik Gellman(
Authored Entry
) ...when dairy farmers shipped their products to Chicago on the Great Western railroad (established in...
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| 1835 |
Little Italy, Max Grinnell(
Authored Entry
) ...Chicago's “Little Italy” developed in the Near West Side around Halsted and Taylor Streets near Jane...
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| 1836 |
Pingree Grove, IL, Erik Gellman(
Authored Entry
) ...2000. In the 1870s, the construction of the Chicago & Pacific railroad brought modest growth. At the...
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| 1837 |
South Deering, David Bensman(
Authored Entry
) ...Roman Catholics worshiped in nearby South Chicago . After 1900, new settlers arrived from Eastern...
...Organizing Committee began to organize South Chicago mills in 1936, they faced difficulties at the...
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| 1838 |
Dance Halls, Lewis A. Erenberg(
Authored Entry
) ...arriving on the “L” to dance. Photographer: Unknown. Source: Chicago Historical Society. FIGURE 1...
...Dance halls have played central roles in Chicago's civic life. In the 1820s and 1830s, Mark...
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| 1839 |
Hines (Edward) Lumber Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...wholesale lumberyard was a 45-acre facility on Chicago's South Side; it also had several smaller...
...the company employed about 500 people around Chicago, sales neared $300 million. Hines went out of...
...he moved with his family from Buffalo to Chicago in 1865, when he was still a boy, Edward Hines...
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| 1840 |
Veluchamy Enterprises, (
Business Dictionary
) ...owned nearly a dozen direct marketing businesses in the Chicago area, and one each in New Jersey and...
...India. With 1,500 Chicago-area employees, 1,500 more worldwide, and over $200 million in...
...ues, this family-owned and -operated company was one of Chicago's largest minority-owned firms....
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