| 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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| 1951 |
Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, Ron Radano(
Authored Entry
) ...then, continued to enhance the musical life of Chicago and the world. As a training ground, the...
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| 1952 |
Barat College, Sarah Fenton(
Authored Entry
) ...Founded in Chicago in 1858 as a school for Roman Catholic women, Barat College remains a committed...
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| 1953 |
North Park University, D. Bradford Hunt(
Authored Entry
) ...neighborhood along the North Branch of the Chicago River and includes North Park Theological...
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| 1954 |
Era of "Hinky Dink" and "Bathhouse John", Douglas Knox(
Authored Entry
) ...1908. Before redistricting in 1923, each Chicago ward was represented by two aldermen. Coughlin was...
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| 1955 |
Hawthorn Woods, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
Authored Entry
) ...environment from the dense development proposed by Chicago builder Joseph Brickman. A limit on lot...
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| 1956 |
Mettawa, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
Authored Entry
) ...the wealthiest community in the six counties of the Chicago metropolitan area. The village has no...
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| 1957 |
MoMing Dance and Arts Center, Nancy G. Moore(
Authored Entry
) ...in the mid-sixties, MoMing introduced Chicago to the nation's leading postmodern choreographers,...
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| 1958 |
CNA Financial Corp., (
Business Dictionary
) ...by the Loews Corp. , CNA employed about 5,000 Chicago-area residents. At the end of the 1990s,...
...Corp. , CNA employed about 4,500 people in the Chicago area and another 20,000 around the world, and...
...Co. In 1900, Continental Casualty merged with a Chicago insurer, the Metropolitan Accident Co. ,...
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| 1959 |
Crain Communications Inc., (
Business Dictionary
) ...30 titles, and employed about 250 people in the Chicago area and another 750 people worldwide....
...Jr. , who moved it in 1916 from Louisville to Chicago. He immediately started Class (now BtoB) and...
...Crain family. A new publication, Crain's Chicago Business, was launched in 1978; similar newspapers...
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| 1960 |
Holabird & Root, (
Business Dictionary
) ...Root continued to operate, with offices in Chicago and Rochester, Minnesota, through the end of the...
...William Holabird and Ossian Simonds founded a Chicago architecture firm called Holabird & Simonds....
...founder) and John W. Root (the son of another Chicago architect) took over. By this time, the firm...
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