| 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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| 1971 |
Women in the Garment Industries, (
Authored Entry
) ...War, the garment industry grew in downtown Chicago. Immigrant women often took this low-paying,...
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| 1972 |
Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies, Sarah Fenton(
Authored Entry
) ...schools and clubs then multiplying around Chicago, the college received accreditation in 1971. By...
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| 1973 |
Yankee Recollection, (
Authored Entry
) ...When Judge Henry W. Blodgett arrived in Chicago as a young boy in 1831, his family located on the...
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| 1974 |
The Co-Authors as Illustrators, (
Interpretive Digital Essay (Gallery)
) ...Source: Northwestern University Illustration 4548 2625 Burnham Plan Planning Chicago Streets and...
...Highways Plan of Chicago (Digital Essay) Winter View of Grant Park and the Proposed Harbor, Looking...
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| 1975 |
Beatrice Foods Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...1970s, Beatrice employed as many as 8,000 Chicago-area residents. After the company changed hands in...
...last of Beatrice was sold off, and the company that had once been one Chicago's largest was gone....
...the time Beatrice moved its headquarters to Chicago in 1913 (settling in a large facility on South...
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| 1976 |
Nielsen (A. C.) Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...century, the descendant of Arthur Nielsen's small Chicago firm was a worldwide marketing information...
...ACNielsen Corp. 's American headquarters were still located in the Chicago area, in Schaumburg....
...Nielsen opened a statistical consulting firm in Chicago. During the 1930s, he added a service that...
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| 1977 |
Pure Oil Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...California. As late as the mid-1970s, about 2,200 Chicago-area residents were employed by Union Oil....
...to Pure Oil, its headquarters were moved to Chicago. From their offices in the Pure Oil building,...
...and employed more than 1,000 people in the Chicago area. In 1965, Pure Oil was purchased by the...
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| 1978 |
Ryerson (Joseph T.) & Son, (
Business Dictionary
) ...annual sales and about 1,600 employees in the Chicago area. Despite weakened market conditions, as...
...had managed to avoid major layoffs in the Chicago area, but it had become the object of considerable...
...Soon after he arrived in Chicago in 1842 as an agent for a Pittsburgh iron manufacturer, Joseph T....
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| 1979 |
Sayers Group LLC, (
Business Dictionary
) ...around $300 million, the Sayers Group was one of the Chicago's largest minority-owned firms....
...In 1984, former Chicago Bears Hall of Fame running back Gale Sayers and his...
...Sayers, founded the Sayers Group LLC in the Chicago suburb of Mount Prospect. In the beginning, the...
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| 1980 |
Six Corners, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
Authored Entry
) ...and the area was annexed into the city of Chicago in 1889. As residential subdivisions extended to...
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