| 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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| 1881 |
National Malleable and Steel Castings Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...The Chicago Malleable Iron Co. was founded 1873 by Alfred A. Pope and John C. Coonley,...
...emp loyed nearly 1,000 men at its 26th and Western Chicago works, which made metal products for the...
...and horse-drawn carriage industries. In 1891, Chicago Malleable became part of the new National...
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| 1882 |
Native American Religions, Robert L. Hall(
Authored Entry
) ...the French . By AD 1700 many Indians of the greater Chicago area organized community-level religious...
...major Indian religious movement important in the Chicago area before the era of removal was that of...
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| 1883 |
Barrington Hills, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
Authored Entry
) ...community for their workers which they called Chicago Highlands. The foundry closed in 1903 and the...
...the turn of the century, executives working in Chicago sought the quiet and openness that Barrington...
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| 1884 |
Soils, Donald J. Fehrenbacher(
Authored Entry
) ...The soils of the Chicago region were formed by five universal factors: parent material, topography ,...
...to dig in, particularly when dry. Most of Chicago was built on the lakebed soils, which were too wet...
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| 1885 |
Hammond, IN, Joseph C. Bigott(
Authored Entry
) ...last stop for westbound rail traffic entering Chicago. City officials supported the strikers. But...
...as industrial as its neighbors Whiting , East Chicago , and Gary . Instead, Hammond developed an...
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| 1886 |
Harvey, IL, Joseph C. Bigott(
Authored Entry
) ...the Loop. In 1889 Turlington Harvey, a wealthy Chicago lumberman and banker, organized a real-estate...
...merchants and white-collar commuters to Chicago. To a great extent, Harvey remained an evangelical...
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| 1887 |
Juvenile Justice Reform, L. Mara Dodge(
Authored Entry
) ...Chicago's juvenile justice system serves three distinct categories of children: delinquent,...
...Fire of 1871 , convicted boys were sent to the Chicago Reform School. After the fire destroyed the...
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| 1888 |
Rand McNally & Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...In 1856, William H. Rand arrived in Chicago from Boston and set up a printing shop. Rand soon hired...
...two men started managing the printing shop of the Chicago Tribune newspaper. Rand, McNally & Co. was...
...missteps, however, put the once venerable Chicago company on thin ice. It filed for Chapter 11...
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| 1889 |
Morton Arboretum, Riva Feshbach(
Authored Entry
) ...including the study of trees in the urban environment and the ecology of the Chicago region....
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| 1890 |
Corn Products Refining Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...offices of the company finally came to the Chicago area when Corn Products International Inc. was...
...but its main manufacturing operation was located just outside Chicago. In 1910, Corn Products built...
...a new $5 million plant at Summit, southwest of Chicago; the site of the plant was known as Argo, and...
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