| 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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| 1901 |
Victor Adding Machine Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...still employed about 1,300 people in the Chicago area. At the end of the 1970s, Victor Comptometer...
...machines was founded in 1918 by Carl Buehler, a Chicago merchant who already owned a chain of retail...
...its main plant at on North Rockwell Street in Chicago. Albert C. Buehler, a son of the founder, led...
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| 1902 |
Wrigley (Wm. Jr.) Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...the 29-year-old William Wrigley, Jr. , moved to Chicago in 1891. He continued to sell soap, but soon...
...in 1892 from the Zeno Manufacturing Co. of Chicago. Among the early brands of gum made for Wrigley...
...Building, the Michigan Avenue tower that was Chicago's tallest structure when it was completed in...
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| 1903 |
United Center, Daniel Greene(
Authored Entry
) ...on West Madison Avenue in 1994, replacing the Chicago Stadium as the home of the Bulls (National...
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| 1904 |
Wigwam, Theodore J. Karamanski(
Authored Entry
) ...a month entirely of wood, on Lake Street near the Chicago River. The hall was packed with more than...
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| 1905 |
WLS, Douglas Gomery(
Authored Entry
) ...headquartered on North State across from the Chicago Theater, channel 7 became most famous for its...
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| 1906 |
WMAQ, Douglas Gomery(
Authored Entry
) ...on the air in 1922, when it was owned by the Chicago Daily News. In 1929, WMAQ-AM moved to the just-...
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| 1907 |
Woodlawn Organization, The, John Hall Fish(
Authored Entry
) ...its South Side neighbor, the University of Chicago , and with the city administration, TWO developed...
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| 1908 |
Royko: What Clout Is, (
Authored Entry
) ...a definition of clout: [W]hat clout is in Chicago is political influence, as exercised through...
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| 1909 |
Chicagoland, Jack W. Fuller(
Authored Entry
) ...Robert R. McCormick, editor and publisher of the Chicago Tribune for most of the first half of the...
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| 1910 |
Purdue University Calumet, Sarah Fenton(
Authored Entry
) ...of the Illinois border and 25 miles southeast of Chicago—began offering courses to students working...
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