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Lumber, Theodore J. Karamanski(
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) ...Joseph, Michigan. During the 1830s and 1840s the industry was largely focused on supplying the local...
...was clear that the future of Chicago's lumber industry was in supplying the still considerable local...
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North Lawndale, Amanda Seligman(
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) ...find work in the neighborhood. North Lawndale's industries now employed people who commuted to the...
...Corporation—tried but failed to attract new industries to employ North Lawndale's residents and new...
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Automobile Manufacturing, David M. Young(
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) ...the beginning of Chicago's auto manufacturing industry; at least six local tinkerers tried to build...
...Corporation autos. The auto manufacturing industry in the Windy City began to decline by World War I...
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Sleepy Hollow, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
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) ...town remained residential without business or industry for many years. In 1979 the first annexation...
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Germans, Christiane Harzig(
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) ...to find in the city's increasingly mechanizing industries. If generational distinctions help us to...
...unskilled laborers in the textile and tobacco industries. By 1900, these sectors of the economy had...
...Federation of Labor. Over-represented in Chicago industry, they were organized to an unusually high...
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Norridge, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
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) ...ranch houses, Norridge has more shopping and industry than its neighbor. Residents in the 1990s were...
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Restaurants, Bruce Kraig(
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) ...or have been critical segments of the dining industry. Because dining enterprises mirror the city's...
...made Chicago's eating places elements of a major industry. By 2000, the Chicago area's dining...
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Retail Workers, Daniel A. Graff(
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) ...as a legitimate profession in the eyes of the industry. Though still underpaid in comparison to men,...
...War II era, the changing nature of the retail industry reshaped the character of retail work . While...
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Advertising, Quentin J. Schultze(
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) ...Bob Hope. Cone also led the Chicago advertising industry into public philanthropy , supporting the...
...By 1980, advertising was among the largest industries in Chicago, with 8,000 employees in over 500...
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Hegewisch, Erik Gellman(
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) ...Expressway (I-94) and numerous railway lines, industry (including DMC, a major Midwest distributor...
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McGraw-Edison Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...in the Chicago area. In 1985, McGraw-Edison was purchased by Cooper Industries of Houston, Texas....
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Croatians, Amanda Seligman(
Authored Entry
) ...in the Allegheny Valley to work in the burgeoning mining and steel industries. Some passed through...
...Chicago on their way to jobs in heavy industry and coal mines in the West. But many headed directly...
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Film, J. A. Lindstrom(
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) ...From the beginning, the film industry in Chicago had many supporters. The inaugural June 1907 issue...
...house. The exchanges created a new niche in the industry, giving exhibitors access (through rentals)...
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Gary, IN, Raymond A. Mohl(
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) ...remained dangerously dependent on a single industry, a condition that backfired during the Great...
...demands of World War II revived the steel industry and pulled Gary out of the Depression. Wartime...
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Lake County, IN, Joseph C. Bigott(
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) ...to work in the rapidly expanding steel industry. The cities of East Chicago and Gary contained...
...closings, and the loss of jobs in the steel industry damaged severely the economy of northern Lake...
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WTTW: The Beginning of Public Broadcasting, Newton Minow(
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) ...WTTW found a home in the Museum of Science and Industry . With a low budget, 43 hours of programming...
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Wilson & Co., (
Authored Entry
) ...and Swift at the top of the American meat industry. In 1917, when it had already established a...
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Company Housing, Anna Holian(
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) ...it sold lots and built houses for employees of the steelworking industries south of Chicago....
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Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, Youngsoo Bae(
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) ...to reach beyond the stagnating men's clothing industry. In 1976, ACWA members of Chicago, numbering...
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Ghettoization, Larry Bennett(
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) ...Side. Since the 1970s, the withdrawal of major industries and other employers from Chicago's inner-...
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