| 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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| 1991 |
Perkins & Will, (
Business Dictionary
) ...around the country, Perkins & Will ranked as Chicago's leading architecture firm in terms of local...
...At the beginning of the century, it employed about 100 architects in Chicago, working on such...
...projects as the Chicago Park District Headquarters and the Halsted Street Sky Bridge downtown....
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| 1992 |
Telephone & Data Systems Inc., (
Business Dictionary
) ...independent telephone companies, was founded in 1968 by LeRoy T. Carlson, a Chicago native. In 1983,...
...Data Systems (TDS) had its headquarters in Chicago, it created a subsidiary called United States...
...$3 billion dollars in revenues and employed over 8,000 people in the Chicago area at that time....
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| 1993 |
Spiegel Inc., (
Business Dictionary
) ...Spiegel started a home furnishings store in Chicago. A 1903 merger with another furniture company...
...Spiegel employed about 5,000 people in the Chicago area. In 1982, Spiegel was acquired by Otto-...
...about 2,200 people at its catalog warehouse on Chicago's South Side, but this facility would soon...
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| 1994 |
Booz Allen & Hamilton Inc., (
Business Dictionary
) ...which it had grown up. After seven decades as a Chicago company, the firm moved to New York, where...
...management consulting firms originated in Chicago in 1914 under the leadership of Edwin G. Booz. In...
...consultants as late as 1929, but it advised many Chicago companies. In 1936, Booz, Fry, Allen &...
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| 1995 |
Combined Insurance Co. of America, (
Business Dictionary
) ...stood at roughly $2.5 billion. The number of Chicago-area residents employed by the company rose...
...Founded in Chicago by W. Clement Stone, this company would become the nation's largest door-to-door...
...own small agency, the Combined Registry Co. , in Chicago in 1922. Twenty-five years later, after his...
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| 1996 |
Dean Milk Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...some 14,000 employees worldwide were based in the Chicago area. In December 2001, Dean Foods was...
...Dean, an evaporated milk dealer who sold to Chicago-area customers, founded the Dean Evaporated Milk...
...and 1960s, Dean's business—now based in the Chicago suburb of Franklin Park and named the Dean Milk...
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| 1997 |
United Stationers Supply Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...in annual sales; about one-sixth of its 6,000 employees nationwide worked in the Chicago area....
...Co. and started selling office products in Chicago. By the 1930s, they had retail stores as well as...
...of the business. In 1960, when it was still based in Chicago, the company changed its name to United...
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| 1998 |
Buffalo Grove, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
Authored Entry
) ...in wagons along 34 miles of dirt roads to Chicago. Mainly Roman Catholics , these German settlers...
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| 1999 |
Prairie Farmer, Susan Sessions Rugh(
Authored Entry
) ...of Illinois agriculture . Headquartered in Chicago, the paper not only promoted scientific farming...
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| 2000 |
Roadhouses, Charles A. Sengstock, Jr.(
Authored Entry
) ...Prohibition (1920–1933) in rural areas near Chicago, where law enforcement often was inadequate. By...
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