| 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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| 1941 |
Selz, Schwab & Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...northern Illinois, which were located in Chicago, Joliet, Genoa, and Elgin. By this time, Selz,...
...a native of Württemberg, Germany, arrived in Chicago in 1854 after working in sales for companies in...
...Selz started in the clothing business in Chicago with Selz & Cohn, but in 1871 he entered the...
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| 1942 |
Siegel, Cooper & Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...Goods Corp. with the help of J. P. Morgan. The Chicago store closed around 1930, its building soon...
...department store, located on State Street in Chicago's Loop, was established in 1887 by Henry...
...internationally recognized as one of the early “Chicago School” skyscrapers, was however not nearly...
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| 1943 |
Pinkerton National Detective Agency, (
Business Dictionary
) ...70 branch offices (including central offices in Chicago and New York), about $75 million in annual...
...the company had about 800 employees in the Chicago area. By the end of the century, the enterprise...
...settled in the town of Dundee, northwest of Chicago. By the beginning of the 1850s, Pinkerton and a...
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| 1944 |
Carson Pirie Scott & Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...of the 1960s, it operated 11 stores around the Chicago region, where it employed about 8,000 people...
...This leading Chicago department store originated with a business founded in Amboy, Illinois, in 1854...
...Carson & Pirie was based on Lake Street in Chicago; during the late 1860s, annual sales (wholesale...
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| 1945 |
Encyclopaedia Britannica Inc., (
Business Dictionary
) ...Britannica employed about 1,000 people in the Chicago area. During the 1990s, the company...
...moved the general offices to New York City. Chicago's connection with the publication began in 1920,...
...later, Elkan H. “Buck” Powell, a University of Chicago graduate and Sears employee, took charge of...
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| 1946 |
Nalco Chemical Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...built a large new technical center in the Chicago suburb of Naperville. At the end of the 1990s,...
...In 1920, Herbert A. Kern founded the Chicago Chemical Co. , which sold water-treatment chemicals...
...created the National Aluminate Corp. , based in Chicago. Annual sales neared $4 million by the end...
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| 1947 |
Karpen (S.) & Bros., (
Business Dictionary
) ...and Oscar Karpen, who emigrated from Germany to Chicago in 1872, started a furniture manufacturing...
...Karpen was acquired by the Schnadig Corp. , led by Lawrence K. Schnadig of Chicago. By the end of...
...century, Schnadig was still based in the Chicago area (in suburban Des Plaines), but its plants were...
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| 1948 |
Ritchie (W. C.) & Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...born William C. Ritchie, began to operate in Chicago in 1866 as Ritchie & Duck. Its name became W....
...the company employed 1,100 workers at two Chicago box plants; it also owned a factory in nearby...
...by the Stone Container Corp. , another Chicago-based paper box manufacturer. See also Stone...
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| 1949 |
Baxter Travenol Laboratories Inc., (
Business Dictionary
) ...Hospital Supply Corp. , an even larger Chicago-area medical supply company. The new company, which...
...of its 50,000 employees worldwide were in the Chicago area. During the 1990s, however, Baxter sold...
...sales exceeded $8 billion; it had some 5,500 Chicago-area workers and 48,000 employees worldwide....
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| 1950 |
Studs Terkel and Oral History, (
Authored Entry
) ...Studs Terkel is a Pulitzer Prize–winning author and Chicago activist. See I call Nixon and myself “...
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