| 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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| 2001 |
Seiches, Thomas G. Bobula(
Authored Entry
) ...or anyone near the water. Eight people drowned in Chicago's most tragic seiche, on June 26, 1954; a...
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| 2002 |
All-American Girls Baseball League, Cathleen D. Cahill(
Authored Entry
) ...was founded in 1943 by the owner of the Chicago Cubs , Philip K. Wrigley, to retain baseball's fans...
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| 2003 |
Skyway, Dennis McClendon(
Authored Entry
) ...The Chicago (originally Calumet) Skyway is a 7.8-mile long Expressway connection between the Dan...
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| 2004 |
Stroll, The, Shane White(
Authored Entry
) ...and 1920s, thanks to the publicity efforts of the Chicago Defender , it was the best-known street in...
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| 2005 |
Tongs, Charlotte Brooks(
Authored Entry
) ...place groups. At the turn of the century, Chicago's On Leong Tong helped create the Chinatown at...
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| 2006 |
Woman's World's Fair, 1925, Maureen A. Flanagan(
Authored Entry
) ...was the idea of Helen Bennett, the manager of the Chicago Collegiate Bureau of Occupations, and Ruth...
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| 2007 |
World's Parliament of Religions, Martin E. Marty(
Authored Entry
) ...programs that helped bring people to Chicago, just as ambitious religionists took advantage of the...
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| 2008 |
K-Town, Amanda Seligman(
Authored Entry
) ...miles and many duplicate street names within Chicago's boundaries. John D. Riley, superintendent of...
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| 2009 |
Picnic Groves: Ogden's Grove, (
Authored Entry
) ...are among the picnic groves that dotted the Chicago metropolitan area well into the twentieth...
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| 2010 |
Trinity International University, Jeffrey Webb(
Authored Entry
) ...the model typified by Moody Bible Institute in Chicago. Each offered short-term missionary training...
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