| 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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| 1911 |
Bruce Graham on Modernism, (
Authored Entry
) ...and imperial avenues. To look for the character of Chicago, for example. This is what I would call a...
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| 1912 |
Samuel Eberly Gross's Subdivisions, Emily Clark(
Authored Entry
) ...As a real-estate developer in Chicago in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Gross...
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| 1913 |
Ardis Joan Krainik and the Lyric Opera, John von Rhein(
Authored Entry
) ...Ardis Joan Krainik followed in the tradition of Chicago's great female opera company directors, a...
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| 1914 |
Walter Dyett: Music Educator, Kathleen Zygmun(
Authored Entry
) ...the growth of jazz and black musicians in Chicago. In 1922, putting aside medical school and violin,...
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| 1915 |
Calumet Region, Janice L. Reiff(
Authored Entry
) ...the two definitions was apparent in a 1957 Chicago report that described the region as lying south...
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| 1916 |
Collar Counties, Richard D. Mariner(
Authored Entry
) ...the centrally located Cook County in the Chicago metropolitan area: DuPage County, Kane County, Lake...
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| 1917 |
Smoke-Filled Room, Christopher Thale(
Authored Entry
) ...The original smokefilled room was in Chicago's Blackstone Hotel, where, according to an enduring...
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| 1918 |
Fibber McGee and Molly, Spencer Downing(
Authored Entry
) ...NBC broadcast the weekly comedy from WMAQ -Chicago. The good-natured, disorganized McGee, named for...
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| 1919 |
Hobo College, Roger Bruns(
Authored Entry
) ...To the hobo population Chicago was “Big Chi,” the place where thousands of migratory workers in the...
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| 1920 |
Jane, Sara M. Evans(
Authored Entry
) ...abortion referral service in 1969 linked to a Chicago consciousness-raising group. Because abortions...
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