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Food Processing: Regional and National Market, Mark R. Wilson(
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) ...Keebler, Tootsie, and Wrigley, indicated that Chicago would remain at the center of the industry....
...evaporated milk. In processed dairy foods, the industry leader was James L. Kraft, who began selling...
...have dominated the American confectionery industry. William Wrigley, Jr. , founded his Chicago-based...
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Iron and Steel, David Bensman and Mark R. Wilson(
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) ...a variety of products. Only after the U.S. steel industry suffered a sudden decline in the 1970s did...
...The emergence of a large iron and steel industry in the Chicago region during the nineteenth century...
...most of the iron ore used by the American steel industry during its rise was mined in Minnesota and...
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Construction, Mark R. Wilson(
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) ...men of European descent still dominated the local industry, and established contractors had begun to...
...the field of construction. Few of the city's industries have employed more people, and few have been...
...of developments in the city's construction industry. The extraordinary growth of Chicago's built...
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Airlines, Liesl M. Orenic(
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) ...transportation center have made the city attractive to the airline industry from its beginning....
...The roots of the industry lie in the transport of mail for the U.S. Post Office. By the 1920s the...
...routes. Development of the early commercial airline industry grew from a combination of a federal...
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Insurance, Beatrix Hoffman(
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) ...an important place in the history of the industry. While Eastern cities were home to pioneering life...
...for African Americans . The insurance industry also helped to shape and reshape the physical city...
...the insurance world with the revelation that the industry was unprepared to meet such a massive...
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Clothing and Garment Manufacturing, Youngsoo Bae(
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) ...only 7,000 workers engaged in the clothing industry. The few manufacturers still remaining in the...
...in the early nineteenth century. In Chicago this industry developed rapidly after the Great Fire of...
...had ready-to-wear clothes made at their shop. The industry expanded in the next decade, as merchant-...
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Automobile Parts, Mark R. Wilson(
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) ...area companies continued to participate in what had become a highly competitive global industry....
...The manufacture of automobile parts was never one of Chicago's largest industries. Nevertheless,...
...the history of the auto parts industry cannot be written without Chicago-based companies. The...
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Printing, Paul F. Gehl(
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) ...years after World War I , Chicago's centrality in the industry developed into a regional industrial...
...Chicago developed a fully integrated printing industry. Newspapers in 1860 reported 29 printing...
...and numerous print distributors served the industry on a regional basis. Publishing houses fed the...
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Building Trades and Workers, Richard Schneirov(
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) ...The modern construction industry and organizations of journeymen and contractors originated in the...
...sympathy strikes into union control over the industry. The depression from 1893 to 1897, however,...
...the supremacy of the contractors in the industry. The first 11 years of the twentieth century were...
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Calumet River System, Christopher Thale(
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) ...Chicago began to fill up and expanding heavy industry found itself short on space did developers and...
...Calumet River was straightened and dredged. Industry began moving into the area in the 1870s, and by...
...the South Works of U.S. Steel, and other industries had been established in southeast Chicago and...
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Grocery Stores and Supermarkets, Paul Gilmore(
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) ...Supplying Chicagoans with a basic necessity, the retail food industry has not experienced the rise,...
...decline, and renaissance that other industries in the area have seen; instead, it has steadily grown...
...fierce competition that characterized their industry, Chicago's retail food store owners formed many...
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Leather and Tanning, David Blanke(
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) ...and especially the growth of the meatpacking industry made it particularly receptive to large-scale...
...that 24 people. While fostered by the packing industry, these larger tanners remained independent...
...sacrificed quality for quantity. Leather-related industries in Chicago lagged in union membership....
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Northlake, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
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) ...itself. It is seeking to rejuvenate sagging industry, revitalize business, and bring about...
...of farmland. The start of World War II brought industry to neighboring Melrose Park when the Buick...
...the south and west of the community, giving industry access to transportation , and major industry...
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Cosmetics and Hair Care Products, Mark R. Wilson(
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) ...companies that had been so prominent in the industry since the 1950s, only Alberto-Culver—with about...
...participated in the rise of the cosmetics industry during the twentieth century not only as...
...the development of the cosmetics and hair care industries through the leadership of several of the...
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Franklin Park, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
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) ...blue-collar workers employed by the complex of industries. Good location and easy access to O'Hare...
...spur tracks accessing the rear of buildings have made Franklin Park a desirable place for industry....
...later, Franklin Park boasted over 1,200 industries and related businesses covering 60 percent of the...
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Furniture, John B. Jentz(
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) ...Chicago's furniture industry expanded in the mid-nineteenth century by serving a regional rural...
...represented among furniture manufacturers in an industry where small craft shops and medium-sized...
...shipping and the railroads. They were also near industries producing byproducts of the meatpacking...
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Work, David Moberg(
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) ...dramatic transformations, both in the type of industries that dominated and in the organization of...
...of most early-nineteenth-century American industry, Chicago's earliest manufacturing took place in...
...and worker resistance. In Chicago, major industries such as construction, meatpacking , garment...
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Unionization, James R. Barrett(
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) ...also built a large printing and publishing industry and, as a corporate, legal, and medical center,...
...the city. Except for the clothing and garment industry, where strikes in 1909 and 1910 led to the...
...of the breakthroughs among the unskilled in basic industries were eradicated by 1922, and political...
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Hardware Manufacturing, Timothy E. Sullivan(
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) ...were fabricated that the hardware manufacturing industry came to include the production of all sorts...
...The assortment and adaptability of products manufactured by the hardware industry also...
...lends the industry a distinctly American character. With access to resources from its hinterland...
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Laundries and Laundering, Arwen Mohun(
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) ...in the late 1930s. Nationwide, the laundry industry began to go into decline in the 1930s, reeling...
...of electric washing machines for the home. The industry currently survived into the twenty-first...
...In contrast to many better-known Chicago industries, women workers predominated in laundries. They...
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