| 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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| 2101 |
Streamwood, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
Authored Entry
) ...Mudville. ” New residents often came from the same Chicago neighborhoods and rented with an option...
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| 2102 |
Thornton, IL, Dave Bartlett(
Authored Entry
) ...with I-80. The first railroad (later the Chicago & Eastern Illinois, now the Union Pacific) came to...
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| 2103 |
Vernon Hills, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
Authored Entry
) ...once belonged to John F. Cuneo, a prominent Chicago businessman. The former Cuneo Estates continued...
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| 2104 |
Zion, IL, Wallace Best(
Authored Entry
) ...States from Australia in 1888 and settled in Chicago in 1893 near the site of the World's Columbian...
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| 2105 |
Bridgeview, IL, Ronald S. Vasile(
Authored Entry
) ...hay, wheat, and potatoes. By the 1880s former Chicago mayor “Long John” Wentworth owned land in the...
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| 2106 |
Carpentersville, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
Authored Entry
) ...interests in Carpentersville. He persuaded the Chicago & North Western Railroad to extend its tracks...
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| 2107 |
Countryside, IL, Ronald S. Vasile(
Authored Entry
) ...too much time at Wrigley Field watching the Chicago Cubs to make the farm economically viable. In...
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| 2108 |
Geneva, IL, Sherry Meyer(
Authored Entry
) ...began moving west along the new axis of the Chicago & North Western Railroad . In the twentieth...
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| 2109 |
Kenilworth, IL, Jan Olive Nash(
Authored Entry
) ...farmland lying along Lake Michigan just north of Chicago. Much of the land was covered with native...
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| 2110 |
Lake Barrington, IL, Craig L. Pfannkuche(
Authored Entry
) ...populated until after World War I, when Chicago businessmen began turning farms into estates. One...
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