| 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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| 1891 |
Dominick's Finer Foods Inc., (
Business Dictionary
) ...Dominick's remained a leading grocery chain in the Chicago area and was still one of the area's top...
...This retail grocery business was founded in Chicago by Dominick DiMatteo, who was eventually...
...1970s, the Dominick's chain employed about 6,000 Chicago-area residents. In 1981, when there were 71...
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| 1892 |
Goldblatt Bros. Inc., (
Business Dictionary
) ...1905, Simon and Hannah Goldblatt moved with their children from Poland to Chicago. In 1914, two of...
...Maurice and Nathan Goldblatt, opened a store at Chicago and Ashland Avenues, in a neighborhood that...
...in annual sales, and owned five stores in Chicago, as well as stores in nearby Joliet, and Hammond,...
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| 1893 |
Levy (Chas.) Circulating Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...the largest in the nation; it continued to call Chicago home and employed several hundred people in...
...in a raffle and began to haul newspapers around Chicago's West Side. By the 1920s, his company was...
...moved to Goose Island, in the middle of the Chicago River. By the early 1950s, the company owned a...
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| 1894 |
Platinum Technology Inc., (
Business Dictionary
) ...the harbinger of a burgeoning Internet industry in Chicago, quickly sank along with the rest of the...
...was one of the fastest-growing firms in the Chicago area during the 1990s. The company began by...
...around the country, including 1,500 in the Chicago area. In 1999, Platinum was purchased for $3.5...
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| 1895 |
Playskool Inc., (
Business Dictionary
) ...of Milton Bradley, renovated its plant on Chicago's Northwest Side, where it employed over 1,200...
...Inc. of Rhode Island. Much to the dismay of Chicago residents, who had recently helped to finance...
...early 1930s, the enterprise was purchased by a Chicago company, which changed its name to Playskool...
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| 1896 |
Sidley & Austin, (
Business Dictionary
) ...firm traced its roots to Williams & Thompson, a Chicago firm founded in 1866 by Norman Williams and...
...the firm's list of clients included many of Chicago's largest businesses, including Pullman, Western...
...One First National Plaza, a new skyscraper in Chicago's Loop. A 1972 merger with Liebman, Williams,...
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| 1897 |
United Biscuit Co. of America, (
Business Dictionary
) ...merger of several cracker bakeries around the Midwest, including the Sawyer Biscuit Co. of Chicago....
...United Biscuit made its headquarters in Chicago, which was also the location...
...of its packaging materials division, the Chicago Carton Co. During the mid-1930s, the Sawyer bakery...
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| 1898 |
United States Gypsum Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...in annual sales and employed some 1,200 Chicago-area residents. Facing almost 200,000 asbestos-...
...as wallboard and “Sheetrock” was established in Chicago in 1901. Created from a merger of several...
...the country, which included a plant in East Chicago, Indiana, mined gypsum (hydrous calcium sulfate)...
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| 1899 |
Columbian Exposition Gallery, (
Interpretive Digital Essay (Gallery)
) ...Ferris Wheel. Creator: Hermann Heinz Source: Chicago Historical Society (ICHi-27750) Illustration...
...splendor and aesthetic sophistication, which Chicago's fair supporters hoped would counter the...
...Photographer: Charles Dudley Arnold Source: Chicago Historical Society (ICHI-18013) Illustration...
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| 1900 |
Quaker Oats Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...the company employed about 1,800 people in the Chicago area, annual sales were about $1.5 billion....
...sales and had about 1,200 workers in the Chicago area and another 10,000 worldwide, the company was...
...Mill was built at 16th and Dearborn Streets in Chicago by a group of investors that included John...
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