| 1861 |
Forest Park, IL, Jean Louise Guarino(
Authored Entry
) ...park for residents and city dwellers. In 1856, the Chicago & Galena Union Railroad opened a shop and...
...hanged in 1887 for their presumed role in Chicago's Haymarket Riot. In 1893, these men were honored...
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| 1862 |
Hanover Park, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
Authored Entry
) ...Grant Highway and later Lake Street) as far as Galena. In 1872 the Chicago & Pacific Railroad (...
...later the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul) laid tracks on the property of Edwin Bartlett after he...
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| 1863 |
Highland, IN, Jennifer Mrozowski(
Authored Entry
) ...from Dyer to the Little Calumet. In 1883, the Chicago & Atlantic Railroad tracked through the area....
...cities such as Gary , Hammond , and East Chicago . Highland benefited from the nation's attraction...
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| 1864 |
Long Grove, IL, Craig L. Pfannkuche(
Authored Entry
) ...Civil War and industrial opportunities in Chicago drained away most of the area's remaining Yankee...
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| 1865 |
Michigan City, IN, Elizabeth A. Patterson(
Authored Entry
) ...City–bound Eastland rolled over in the Chicago River , other modes of tourist transportation took...
...utilities magnate Samuel Insull upgraded the Chicago, South Shore & South Bend Railroad. Both the...
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| 1866 |
Model Cities, D. Bradford Hunt(
Authored Entry
) ...delivery, and citizen participation. In Chicago, Model Cities generated significant controversy,...
...to existing city bureaucracies, including the Chicago Transit Authority , the Board of Health, the...
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| 1867 |
Morton Grove, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
Authored Entry
) ...years later land along the North Branch of the Chicago River and the Skokie marshes was designated...
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| 1868 |
Mount Greenwood, Clinton E. Stockwell(
Authored Entry
) ...1927 Mount Greenwood voted for annexation to Chicago, hoping for improvements such as sewers, water...
...farm in the city, which wasdeveloped as the Chicago High School for Agricultural Sciences. The...
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| 1869 |
Northbrook, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
Authored Entry
) ...a stopover for travelers going to and from Chicago and Milwaukee. German farmers bought land in the...
...Town. In 1872 a single track was laid and the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad began to haul...
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| 1870 |
Portage, IN, James B. Lane(
Authored Entry
) ...supplied milk, livestock, produce, and sand to Chicago buyers. The area maintained its rural flavor...
...line linked residents to Gary , Hammond , East Chicago , Crown Point , and Valparaiso . During world...
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| 1871 |
Ward (Montgomery) & Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...and still employed close to 7,000 people in the Chicago area, Ward announced that it would shut down...
...After nearly 130 years in business as a major Chicago company and leading American retailer, the...
...great mail-order retail company was founded in Chicago in 1872 by Aaron Montgomery Ward. Ward, a New...
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| 1872 |
Foote, Cone & Belding, (
Business Dictionary
) ...Inc. , a new global ad firm headquartered in Chicago. At the end of the century, True North had...
...revenues and employed about 1,200 people in the Chicago area. In 2001, Interpublic purchased True...
...as a part of Interpublic, still ranked as Chicago's second-largest advertising agency, but it had...
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| 1873 |
Greyhound Corp., (
Business Dictionary
) ...began diversifying and acquired Armour-Dial, the old Chicago-based meatpacking giant. In 1971, when...
...headquarters to Phoenix, about 1,000 jobs left the Chicago area. By the end of the century, after...
...Canada, Greyhound buses still ran in and out of Chicago, but the company had little presence in the...
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| 1874 |
Morton Salt Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...25-year-old Nebraskan named Joy Morton arrived in Chicago to become a new partner in E. I. Wheeler &...
...marketing firm. Wheeler & Co. originated as a Chicago firm called Richmond & Co. , which in 1848 had...
...the company had about 250 employees in the Chicago area. After World War II, Morton expanded into...
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| 1875 |
Sears, Roebuck & Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...in suburban Hoffman Estates, employed about 8,000 men and women in the Chicago area. The...
...year 2001 was a milestone for Sears in Chicago, as it opened a large store on downtown State Street...
...The business that would become Chicago's leading company and America's leading retailer for much of...
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| 1876 |
General American Transportation Corp., (
Business Dictionary
) ...the end of the 1990s, GATX, still headquartered in Chicago, owned a fleet of nearly 90,000 railcars,...
...In 1898, Max Epstein founded a Chicago-based railcar leasing firm called the Atlantic Seaboard...
...opened repair and maintenance shops in East Chicago, Indiana; it then began to manufacture new steel...
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| 1877 |
Seipp (Conrad) Brewing Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...an immigrant from Germany, started making beer in Chicago in 1854, after buying a small brewery from...
...of the 1860s, when Seipp & Lehman was one of Chicago's leading brewers, about 50 employees made more...
...the Conrad Seipp Brewing Co. Dominating the Chicago beer market by the late 1870s, Seipp was among...
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| 1878 |
Swift & Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...off and moved to Texas. Swift, once one of Chicago's leading employers and largest companies, no...
...In 1875, Swift began buying cattle in Chicago to send to his family's butcher operations back East....
...refrigerated railcars to ship fresh meat from Chicago to Eastern markets. The company soon set up a...
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| 1879 |
Abbott Laboratories, (
Business Dictionary
) ...Chicago physician Wallace C. Abbott founded the Abbott Alkoloidal Co. in 1900. Abbott's experiments...
...in 1915, in 1920 the company moved to a new headquarters in North Chicago. In the mid-1930s,...
...Abbott employed about 750 men and women in the Chicago area. Sales of anesthetics such as “Nembutal”...
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| 1880 |
Butler Bros., (
Business Dictionary
) ...company in Boston in 1877. Butler Bros. opened a Chicago warehouse in 1879, and the city became home...
...department. (All of its operations were based in Chicago after 1930, when the purchasing department...
...moved from New York. ) By 1910, the Chicago offices employed about 1,000 people. Like Sears and...
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