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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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| 2111 |
Lincolnwood, IL, Laura Milsk(
Authored Entry
) ...population grew after the establishment of a Chicago & North Western Railway station in nearby...
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| 2112 |
Oak Forest, IL, Larry A. McClellan(
Authored Entry
) ...Poor Farm in Dunning on the Northwest Side of Chicago. The facility was completed in 1910 as the Oak...
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| 2113 |
Orland Park, IL, Larry A. McClellan(
Authored Entry
) ...growth in the metropolitan region southwest of Chicago. Commercial growth has been dramatic, with...
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| 2114 |
Phoenix, IL, Larry A. McClellan(
Authored Entry
) ...by 1920, there was a greater influx of blacks from Chicago and the South. Industry in Harvey and the...
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| 2115 |
Fairbank (N. K.) & Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...over 1,000 people at the 19th Street plant in Chicago into the 1910s. In 1921, the plant was closed...
...as the successor to Smedley, Peck & Co. , a Chicago lard processor and soap maker. Using materials...
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| 2116 |
FMC Corp., (
Business Dictionary
) ...sales of over $4 billion, FMC still called Chicago home, but only a few hundred of its some 16,000...
...soon after it purchased the Link-Belt Corp. of Chicago, FMC moved its headquarters from San Jose to...
...employer, with about 10,000 workers in the Chicago area during the mid-1970s. By this time, the...
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| 2117 |
Henderson (C. M.) & Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...sales had reached $3 million, and three Chicago-area factories employed nearly 1,000 people....
...Charles M. Henderson moved from New England to Chicago in 1853, when he was 19, and joined the...
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| 2118 |
Keith Bros., (
Business Dictionary
) ...wholesaler, employing about 200 people at its Chicago headquarters, nearly 500 more at a factory in...
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| 2119 |
Schuttler (Peter) Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...to prosper. In 1863, he was one of only three Chicago residents (Potter Palmer and John V. Farwell...
...maker in Sandusky, Ohio, Schuttler moved to Chicago in 1843. He soon set up a new wagon shop and...
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| 2120 |
Waste Management Inc., (
Business Dictionary
) ...a large laboratory in Riverdale, outside of Chicago—was spun off as an independent entity in 1986....
...had its origins in the Dutch-dominated Chicago garbage business. In 1965, the U.S. Congress passed...
...of these companies was Waste Management, a Chicago-based enterprise founded in 1968 by Dean Buntrock...
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