| 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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| 1981 |
Carol Stream, IL, Jane S. Teague(
Authored Entry
) ...life. Daniel Kelley donated land for the Chicago & Great Western Railway, and the area around the...
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| 1982 |
Dyer, IN, Jennifer Mrozowski(
Authored Entry
) ...Illinois seeking a quiet suburban community near Chicago. The sanitarium founded in the 1940s, now...
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| 1983 |
Bally Manufacturing Corp., (
Business Dictionary
) ...Lion Manufacturing Corp. , a firm established in Chicago in 1931 by Raymond J. Moloney. Lion created...
...the company employed about 2,300 people in the Chicago area. Although it suffered a setback in the...
...company a few years earlier, remained based in Chicago. At the end of the 1990s, Bally Total Fitness...
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| 1984 |
Jewel Cos., (
Business Dictionary
) ...motorized ones, it moved its headquarters from Chicago to suburban Barrington. Threatened by local...
...company started to open retail stores around Chicago. By 1936, it owned 100 stores, which together...
...it was the leading retail grocery chain in the Chicago area. In 1984, when its share of the Chicago-...
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| 1985 |
Kraft Inc., (
Business Dictionary
) ...Canada, started a cheese-delivery business in Chicago in 1903. Within a few years, Kraft was...
...Corp. , which was founded in 1923 by the Chicago pharmacist Thomas H. McInnerney. By the early...
...Kraft-Phenix employed about 700 people in the Chicago area. In 1969, Kraft and National Dairy became...
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| 1986 |
Ace Hardware Corp, (
Business Dictionary
) ...Ace was created 1924 in Chicago by Richard...
...Hesse and other Chicago hardware dealers who wanted to provide a centralized purchasing organization...
...stores in all 50 states and more than 60 countries, and employed about 1,000 Chicago-area residents....
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| 1987 |
American Airlines Inc., (
Business Dictionary
) ...American Airlines has never been based in Chicago, but by the late twentieth century, it had become...
...passenger airlines, American employed about 3,500 Chicago-area residents by the early 1970s; during...
...11, 2001, American employed approximately the same number of Chicago-area employees in 2002....
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| 1988 |
Bankers Life and Casualty Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...Co. was small and nearly bankrupt when Chicago insurance salesman John D. MacArthur purchased it in...
...By the mid-1970s, the company had nearly 5,000 Chicago-area employees. In 1978, after the death of...
...a large nonprofit organization based in Chicago. In 1992, Bankers Life was acquired by Conseco Inc....
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| 1989 |
CDW Computer Centers, Inc., (
Business Dictionary
) ...Computer Discount Warehouse, was established in Chicago in 1983 by Michael Krasny after he found it...
...order catalog; he opened a retail showroom in Chicago in 1989. The company became CDW in 1993, when...
...Hills, was exceeding $4.2 billion in annual sales and employing over 2,000 Chicago-area residents....
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| 1990 |
Mayer, Brown & Platt, (
Business Dictionary
) ...Descended from a law partnership founded in Chicago in 1881, this firm was known by the mid-...
...Austrian & Platt. Major clients included large Chicago companies such as Continental Bank and Sears....
...550 attorneys and 2,000 staff members in its Chicago office alone, and boasted 18 additional offices...
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