| 2081 |
Loyola University, Br. Michael Grace, S.J.(
Authored Entry
) ...one year later, and a business school in 1922. The Chicago College of Dental Surgery merged with the...
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| 2082 |
Markham, IL, Dave Bartlett(
Authored Entry
) ...located on a lake plain formed by glacial Lake Chicago (12,000 BP). The Tinley Moraine follows the...
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| 2083 |
Northfield, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
Authored Entry
) ...are located on the eastern border along the Chicago & North Western Railway and the expressway....
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| 2084 |
Palos Hills, IL, William T. Corcoran(
Authored Entry
) ...the timber supply, sending much of it to Chicago via the canal. The first Roman Catholic community,...
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| 2085 |
Patronage, David Orr(
Authored Entry
) ...the basic premise of political patronage in Chicago, as well as in the state government, was that “...
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| 2086 |
Continental Illinois National Bank & Trust Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...was the product of a 1910 merger of two Chicago enterprises, the Commercial National Bank and the...
...the Continental & Commercial National Bank of Chicago, which had $175 million in deposits, making it...
...around the world, the bank employed about 8,200 Chicago-area residents, many of whom worked at...
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| 2087 |
Searle (G. D.) & Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...moved their operation from Omaha, Nebraska, to Chicago's North Side. After Searle died in 1917, the...
...bought an old Abbott Laboratories plant in Chicago's Ravenswood neighborhood in 1925, moved its...
...the company employed about 4,500 people in the Chicago area. In 1981, after an extended controversy...
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| 2088 |
Material Service Corp., Andrew W. Cohen.(
Business Dictionary
) ...limestone quarries, in Thornton, just south of Chicago. The company soon benefited from large war-...
...builders of commercial property. Among the major Chicago structures that MSC helped to build were...
...and the Civic Opera House. Friendly ties to Chicago mayors Anton Cermak and Richard J. Daley...
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| 2089 |
Andersen (Arthur) & Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...accounting groups together employed nearly 8,500 Chicago-area residents. In the wake of the Enron...
...accounting services firm was founded in Chicago in 1913 by a young Northwestern University...
...client base rose from 2,300 to 50,000, and the Chicago office increased from about 250 to more than...
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| 2090 |
Johnson Products Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...The Johnson Products division maintained its headquarters in Chicago but adopted the L'Oreal name....
...cosmetics salesman, formed this company in Chicago in 1954. At a plant on the city's South Side,...
...that time, Johnson had about 500 employees in Chicago, and it invested in a factory in Nigeria. But...
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| 2091 |
Pettibone Mulliken Corp., (
Business Dictionary
) ...the 1970s, when the company was still based in Chicago but had few local workers, it became known as...
...It claimed revenues of nearly $130 million but did not employ a large workforce in the Chicago area....
...The company's main railroad equipment plant was on Chicago's West Side. In 1945, when most of the...
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| 2092 |
Castle (A. M.) & Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...distributor of steel products was founded in Chicago in 1890 by A. M. Castle. By the late 1920s,...
...the company employed about 500 people in the Chicago area and did about $700 million in annual...
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| 2093 |
Horner (Henry) & Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...Henry Horner founded a grocery store in Chicago in 1842, two years after he emigrated from Bohemia....
...at Randolph and Canal Streets, was one of Chicago's earliest retail groceries; Horner started a...
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| 2094 |
Morrison, Plummer & Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...wholesaling business from Richmond, Indiana, to Chicago. At the turn of the century, Morrison's son...
...the McKesson & Robbins; in the 1930s, the Chicago-based firm was known as McKesson-Fuller-Morrison....
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| 2095 |
Origins of the Grid, (
Historical Source
) ...acre. See also: Government, City of Chicago ; Mapping Chicago ; Schools and Education ; Townships...
...The Electronic Encyclopedia of Chicago ©...
...2005 Chicago Historical Society. The Encyclopedia of Chicago © 2004 The Newberry Library. All Rights...
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| 2096 |
Elgin National Watch Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...manufacturers of timepieces, was founded in Chicago during the Civil War by a group of investors...
...mayor of the city, and John C. Adams, a Chicago watchmaker. Other founders of this new company,...
...watches at a new plant in Elgin, west of Chicago. By 1870, the plant, which over the previous year...
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| 2097 |
Rolling Meadows, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
Authored Entry
) ...a floor plan of his basic house in the Chicago Tribune. Although the response was positive,...
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| 2098 |
Round Lake Beach, IL, Craig L. Pfannkuche(
Authored Entry
) ...growth was so strong that Metra , which directs Chicago metropolitan rail commuter activity, added...
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| 2099 |
South Holland, IL, Jonathan J. Keyes(
Authored Entry
) ...gardening, supplying the burgeoning city of Chicago with fresh produce. In 1892, Dutch and German...
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| 2100 |
Steering, Pierre deVise(
Authored Entry
) ...January 1966, Martin Luther King, Jr. , chose Chicago for a national campaign against housing bias....
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