| 1951 |
Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, Ron Radano(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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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| 1961 |
Libby, McNeill, & Libby, (
Business Dictionary
) ...1930s, it employed some 9,000 people in the Chicago area. Annual sales passed $100 million during...
...the company had annual sales of close to $500 million and about 1,300 workers in the Chicago area....
...of canned meat each year. Like other large Chicago meat companies, Libby slaughtered at the Union...
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| 1962 |
Munger, Wheeler & Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...Wesley Munger and George Armour started a Chicago grain-warehousing company called Munger & Armour....
...large grain elevators next to the depot of the Chicago & North Western Railroad. When Wesley Munger...
...1.5 million barrels, were destroyed in the Chicago Fire of 1871 , but the firm rebounded. In 1880,...
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| 1963 |
Nuveen (John) Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...Companies of Minnesota. During the 1990s, as a Chicago-based division of St. Paul, Nuveen began to...
...the century, it employed over 400 people in the Chicago area and had annual revenues close to $350...
...John Nuveen emigrated from Germany to Chicago with his family in 1866, when he was two years old....
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| 1964 |
S&C Electric Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...who were then employees of Commonwealth Edison, Chicago's electric utility. The company served as a...
...and grew during the 1950s. In 1961, it opened a large Chicago facility called the Conrad Laboratory....
...mid-1970s, S&C employed about 1,400 people in the Chicago area. By the early 2000s, S&C was still a...
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| 1965 |
Spalding (A. G.) Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...professionally with the Boston Red Stockings and the Chicago White Stockings during the 1870s....
...Spalding started a sporting goods business in Chicago, helped found baseball's National League, and...
...served as both player and manager of the new Chicago Club baseball team. By the 1880s, the company...
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| 1966 |
Wolff (L.) Manufacturing Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...the company had about 3,500 workers at two Chicago-area plants and sales and service operations in...
...emigrated with his family from Germany to Chicago in 1854, when he was 18 years old. The following...
...Wolff Manufacturing Co. Wolff built a large new Chicago plant at Carroll and Fulton Streets in 1887;...
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| 1967 |
Bannockburn, IL, Adam H. Stewart(
Authored Entry
) ...century, it has remained smaller than most Chicago suburbs. In 2000, the population was only 1,429,...
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| 1968 |
Fansteel Inc., (
Business Dictionary
) ...but still employed over 1,000 people in the Chicago area. It remained a medium-sized company that...
...By the end of the 1990s, still based in North Chicago, the company sold about $150 million annually...
...and employed fewer than 200 people in the Chicago area....
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| 1969 |
Farwell (John V.) & Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...sales and employed over 1,000 people at its Chicago headquarters, but it was no longer growing and...
...to Illinois. In 1845, the young Farwell headed to Chicago, where he worked as a clerk for several...
...became a partner in the largest of these Chicago dry-goods firms, which changed its name from...
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| 1970 |
Bigger Thomas: A Tale of Two Neighborhoods, (
Authored Entry
) ...Richard Wright came to Chicago in 1927, one of thousands of African American migrants from the...
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