| 1921 |
La Leche League, Lynn Y. Weiner(
Authored Entry
) ...of women established in 1956 in a Near West Chicago suburb, to promote “good mothering through...
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| 1922 |
Lexington Hotel, Jonathan J. Keyes(
Authored Entry
) ...the Lexington Hotel mirrors the fortunes of Chicago's once fashionable Near South Side . Completed...
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| 1923 |
Mr. Wizard, Kathy Peiss(
Authored Entry
) ...a popular science show for children, in 1951 on Chicago television station WNBQ, an NBC outlet known...
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| 1924 |
Museum of Broadcast Communications, Wallace Best(
Authored Entry
) ...Museum of Broadcast Communications moved to the Chicago Cultural Center at the corner of Washington...
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| 1925 |
Kirkland & Ellis, (
Business Dictionary
) ...was the descendant of a partnership formed in Chicago in 1908 by Stewart G. Shepard and Robert R....
...McCormick soon left to take charge of the Chicago Tribune newspaper, the family business. ) In 1915,...
...the business. Among the firm's major clients were Chicago companies such as International Harvester,...
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| 1926 |
Lettuce Entertain You Enterprises Inc., (
Business Dictionary
) ...Melman opened a restaurant in the Lincoln Park neighborhood of Chicago that he called R. J. Grunts....
...Over the next five years, Melman opened four more restaurants in the Chicago area. By the mid-1980s,...
...restaurants employed about 2,000 people in the Chicago area and annual revenues stood at about $40...
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| 1927 |
Southwest Airlines Inc., (
Business Dictionary
) ...flying in 1971. In 1985, the discount airline began to serve Chicago's Midway Airport. Although it...
...call Texas home, Southwest became an important Chicago airline in the early 1990s, when it purchased...
...By 1994, it employed about 1,200 people in the Chicago area. As the rest of the airline industry...
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| 1928 |
Dick (A. B.) Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...it was founded, A. B. Dick still called Chicago home; as a division of Nesco Inc. of Cleveland, it...
...B. Dick, who started a lumber business in Chicago in 1883, soon left that field to pioneer the...
...Dick employed about 900 people in the Chicago area. In 1949, the company moved its headquarters to...
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| 1929 |
Marmon Group Inc., (
Business Dictionary
) ...30,000 people worldwide, with over 2,500 in the Chicago area. In 2002, Robert Pritzker retired...
...spending 48 years at the company's helm in its Chicago headquarters. Soon thereafter, efforts were...
...large portions of the immense assets of what was still Chicago's largest privately held company....
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| 1930 |
Northern Trust Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...the bank employed about 3,000 people in the Chicago area, its fortunes were boosted by a new federal...
...market of the early 2000s, Northern had become Chicago's third-largest bank, with over $1.3 trillion...
...in assets under custody and over 9,300 employees worldwide and almost 6,000 in the Chicago area....
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| 1931 |
Standard Oil Co. (Indiana), (
Business Dictionary
) ...refinery at Whiting, Indiana, southeast of Chicago. By the mid-1890s, the Whiting plant had become...
...of Indiana—which had its main offices in downtown Chicago—emerged as an independent company; it soon...
...about 7,000 people at its Whiting plant and Chicago offices. Standard Indiana ranked as the second-...
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| 1932 |
West Pullman, Janice L. Reiff(
Authored Entry
) ...14 miles S of the Loop. When University of Chicago sociologists created the West Pullman community...
...Pullmanites joined in the battle against the Chicago Housing Authority 's Altgeld Gardens in nearby...
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| 1933 |
Bridgeport, Dominic A. Pacyga(
Authored Entry
) ...owned a farm along the South Branch of the Chicago River . In April 1812 Indians raided Lee's farm...
...Richard M. Daley, became the fifth mayor of Chicago born in Bridgeport. Bridgeport once stood as a...
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| 1934 |
Union Tank Car Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...shipped oil from the fields of Pennsylvania to Chicago. The company was purchased by Standard Oil in...
...name to UTCC and its headquarters were moved to Chicago. In 1931, it began shipping chemicals and...
...moved into the new Union Tank Car Building in Chicago's Loop, annual sales exceeded $100 million. A...
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| 1935 |
Automatic Canteen Co. of America, (
Business Dictionary
) ...World Corp. purchased the company, and management of its operations left Chicago....
...1929 by Nathaniel Leverone, who had arrived in Chicago as a 24-year-old in 1908. Leverone's company,...
...Canteen Corp. employed about 1,000 people in the Chicago area. At the end of the 1970s, the Trans...
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| 1936 |
Borg-Warner Corp., (
Business Dictionary
) ...company employed more than 5,000 people in the Chicago area, along with tens of thousands around the...
...specialist, with about $2.5 billion in annual sales and about 1,300 employees in the Chicago area....
...automobile clutch manufacturing business to Chicago. In 1928, Borg & Beck merged with three other...
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| 1937 |
Cudahy Packing Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...the company still employed about 1,000 Chicago-area residents during the mid-1930s. Following World...
...early 1860s; there they met Philip Armour, whom they followed to Chicago during the 1870s. In the...
...the Cudahys operated small packing plants in Chicago. In 1887, with Armour's backing, Michael Cudahy...
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| 1938 |
Florsheim Shoe Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...independent company with its headquarters in Chicago. By the end of the 1990s, Florsheim Shoe Group...
...sales, only about 10 percent of its some 2,000 employees worldwide worked in the Chicago area....
...In 1892 Milton Florsheim, the son of a Chicago shoemaker, started a small shoe store. Florsheim soon...
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| 1939 |
Midway Airlines Inc., (
Business Dictionary
) ...of business in 1991, Midway employed about 4,000 people in the Chicago area. A North Carolina–based...
...with the Midway name and owned by Sam Zell of Chicago appeared in 1994, filed for bankruptcy in...
...employees at its main hub at Midway Airport in Chicago. One of the first new airline companies to...
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| 1940 |
National Tea Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...the company operated about 240 stores in the Chicago area (where it had fallen behind Jewel as the...
...National Tea/George Weston suddenly abandoned the Chicago grocery market. By the end of the century,...
...area's leading enterprises and the source of groceries for a large fraction of Chicago's population....
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