| 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(
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) ...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(
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) ...common to Eastern Orthodoxy. Most of the Chicago area's Eastern Rite Catholics are Ukrainians ,...
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| 1830 |
Stateway Gardens, Erik Gellman(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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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| 1841 |
Automatic Electric Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...telephone equipment manufacturer located in the Chicago area, Automatic Electric spent most of its...
...invented an automatic telephone switch. In 1891, Joseph B. Harris of Chicago convinced Strowger...
...to move to Chicago, and the Strowger Automatic Telephone Exchange was established. In 1901, the...
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| 1842 |
River Grove, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
Authored Entry
) ...using the trail and bridge took passengers from Chicago to Galena. In the 1840s the Spencer brothers...
...Park . In 1920 Volk Realty established the Chicago Home Gardens subdivision north of the Oak Park...
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