| 2051 |
Helene Curtis Industries Inc., (
Business Dictionary
) ...close the old North Avenue plant, leaving the company with little presence in the Chicago area....
...1960s, when it employed more than 1,000 people in Chicago, the company's annual sales of shampoo,...
...when the company's plant on North Avenue in Chicago employed nearly 1,000 people. In 1996, one year...
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| 2052 |
Mayer (Oscar) & Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...started a small sausage-making operation on Chicago's North Side. They opened a meatpacking plant in...
...company, it employed over 400 people in the Chicago area. Annual sales rose to about $275 million by...
...including many in Madison, Wisconsin, as well as Chicago. By the 1970s, the company had moved its...
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| 2053 |
McGraw-Edison Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...a teenager in Iowa. In 1926, McGraw moved to Chicago, purchased a toaster company, and set up an...
...the company had over 1,000 workers in the Chicago area. In 1957, McGraw bought Thomas A. Edison Inc....
...the company had about 2,200 employees in the Chicago area. In 1985, McGraw-Edison was purchased by...
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| 2054 |
Munn & Scott, (
Business Dictionary
) ...1856, Ira Y. Munn and his partners owned a large Chicago grain elevator with a capacity of 200,000...
...end of the Civil War, the company owned four Chicago grain elevators with a total capacity of 2.3...
...Munn had already served as president of the Chicago Board of Trade. Annual revenues reached about $4...
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| 2055 |
Walgreen Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...pharmacy at Cottage Grove and Bowen Avenues on Chicago's South Side. A second Walgreen store opened...
...Walgreen employed about 10,000 people in the Chicago area, and it was the nation's leading drug...
...sales from over 3,000 stores nationwide. It employed over 14,000 people in the greater Chicago area....
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| 2056 |
Whittman-Hart Inc., (
Business Dictionary
) ...Bernard, a son of an electrician who worked for Chicago's Inland Steel Co. , founded this computer...
...around the world, including about 1,500 in the Chicago area. At the time, MarchFirst ranked as the...
...operating in five Midwestern cities including Chicago, reincarnated the well-known WhittmanHart...
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| 2057 |
Wieboldt Stores Inc., (
Business Dictionary
) ...This retailing enterprise, which became a Chicago-area chain of department stores, was founded in...
...the Wieboldt store on Milwaukee Avenue in Chicago employed about 700 people and grossed $3 million...
...company still employed about 6,000 people in the Chicago area, but Wieboldt had trouble remaining...
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| 2058 |
Evans Food Products, (
Business Dictionary
) ...Chicago attorney Lester W. Olin entered the pork rind business in 1947 when he purchased a large oil...
...Evans was the world's top pork rind business, and one of Chicago's largest minority-owned firms....
...It employed about 100 people in Chicago and almost 150 more in its three other locations....
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| 2059 |
Flying Food Group Inc., (
Business Dictionary
) ...company sold to grocery stores. By mid-2003, the Chicago-based company had begun to grow back to its...
...With about 2,300 employees worldwide—including almost 1,000 in Chicago—and $120 million in revenues,...
...Flying Food Group was one of Chicago's largest minority-owned firms....
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| 2060 |
Sauk Village, IL, Larry A. McClellan(
Authored Entry
) ...border to Vincennes/Hubbard's Trail in South Chicago Heights was designated as part of the Lincoln...
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| 2061 |
Beach Park, IL, Wallace Best(
Authored Entry
) ...completely rural until the 1930s, when people from Chicago and Milwaukee constructed campgrounds and...
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| 2062 |
Villa District, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
Authored Entry
) ...and spacing. The bungalows were designed in the “Chicago” and “California” styles with numerous...
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| 2063 |
Washington Park Subdivision, Amanda Seligman(
Authored Entry
) ...Businessmen's Association and the University of Chicago cajoled landlords in Washington Park...
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| 2064 |
Wayne, IL, Jane S. Teague(
Authored Entry
) ...by 1888, followed by the electric interurban Chicago, Aurora & Elgin Railway in 1903, which also...
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| 2065 |
Winthrop Harbor, IL, Wallace Best(
Authored Entry
) ...Winthrop Harbor in Zion, Waukegan , and North Chicago . In 1989, the Illinois Department of Natural...
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| 2066 |
Wood Dale, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
Authored Entry
) ...these lands for their own farms. When the Chicago & Pacific Railroad came through the area in 1873,...
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| 2067 |
Breakfast Club, Ron Grossman(
Authored Entry
) ...the freewheeling style of the golden age of Chicago broadcasting . Almost two years after its 1933...
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| 2068 |
Broadview, IL, Patricia Krone Rose(
Authored Entry
) ...Air Mail Field, the airport operated as Chicago's airmail center until 1923. Eventually this land...
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| 2069 |
Bulls, Melissa Isaacson(
Authored Entry
) ...It would seem the Chicago Bulls have been around forever. Six NBA championships create a sense of...
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| 2070 |
Aldermanic Privilege, Christopher Thale(
Authored Entry
) ...Aldermanic privilege refers to the power of Chicago city council members (aldermen) to initiate or...
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