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McGraw-Edison Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...in the Chicago area. In 1985, McGraw-Edison was purchased by Cooper Industries of Houston, Texas....
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Croatians, Amanda Seligman(
Authored Entry
) ...in the Allegheny Valley to work in the burgeoning mining and steel industries. Some passed through...
...Chicago on their way to jobs in heavy industry and coal mines in the West. But many headed directly...
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Film, J. A. Lindstrom(
Authored Entry
) ...From the beginning, the film industry in Chicago had many supporters. The inaugural June 1907 issue...
...house. The exchanges created a new niche in the industry, giving exhibitors access (through rentals)...
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Gary, IN, Raymond A. Mohl(
Authored Entry
) ...remained dangerously dependent on a single industry, a condition that backfired during the Great...
...demands of World War II revived the steel industry and pulled Gary out of the Depression. Wartime...
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Lake County, IN, Joseph C. Bigott(
Authored Entry
) ...to work in the rapidly expanding steel industry. The cities of East Chicago and Gary contained...
...closings, and the loss of jobs in the steel industry damaged severely the economy of northern Lake...
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WTTW: The Beginning of Public Broadcasting, Newton Minow(
Authored Entry
) ...WTTW found a home in the Museum of Science and Industry . With a low budget, 43 hours of programming...
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Wilson & Co., (
Authored Entry
) ...and Swift at the top of the American meat industry. In 1917, when it had already established a...
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Company Housing, Anna Holian(
Authored Entry
) ...it sold lots and built houses for employees of the steelworking industries south of Chicago....
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Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, Youngsoo Bae(
Authored Entry
) ...to reach beyond the stagnating men's clothing industry. In 1976, ACWA members of Chicago, numbering...
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Ghettoization, Larry Bennett(
Authored Entry
) ...Side. Since the 1970s, the withdrawal of major industries and other employers from Chicago's inner-...
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Union Stock Yard & Transit Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...made Chicago the center of the American meat industry for decades, was organized during the Civil...
...John B. Sherman, a veteran of the livestock industry. By the beginning of the 1890s, when the Union...
...system had helped to centralize the meatpacking industry after the Civil War, the post–World War II...
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Romeoville, IL, Sarah S. Marcus(
Authored Entry
) ...proximity to Chicago and Joliet, the existing industry along the Sanitary and Ship Canal , and...
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Belarusians, Vitaut Kipel(
Authored Entry
) ...as participation in Museum of Science and Industry Christmas Programs and coordinates a variety of...
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Palos Park, IL, Betsy Gurlacz(
Authored Entry
) ...contains few minorities and there is no industry in the village, although there is some commercial...
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Portage, IN, James B. Lane(
Authored Entry
) ...Lakeshore, Burns Harbor , and steel mills that still employ more residents than any other industry....
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Calumet Harbor, Page 1, Ann Durkin Keating(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...in the late twentieth century, many of the industries which once lined the railroad and slips of the...
...dredging. Nearby railroads fostered both industry and trade, as the region emerged as an important...
...railroads, provided excellent transportation for industry and trade. See also: South Chicago ; East...
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Corporate Headquarters and Industrial Relics, Sarah S. Marcus(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Gallery)
) ...service-oriented businesses and high-tech industries moved into the Chicago area, drawn by some of...
...example of the significant impact of high-tech industry on metropolitan Chicago's economy and global...
...Preservation ; Iron and Steel ; Iron and Steel Industry (Map) ; Water in Chicago (Digital Essay)...
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Council on Fine Arts, Steve Scott(
Authored Entry
) ...Events and the Office of Film and Entertainment Industries to constitute the Department of Cultural...
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Mapping Chicago, Old and New, (
Interpretive Digital Essay (Gallery)
) ...Parks in Relation to the Areas Covered by Industries and Manufacturing One of the many maps adapted...
...District Map of Chicago. Areas covered by industries (located mostly along the branches of the...
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Industrial Expansion, Sarah S. Marcus(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...and social benefits of industrialization. Neither industry nor preservation advocates expected the...
...recognized that the waterway would attract more industry and shipping to the entire Great Lakes,...
...in the Chicago region already exceeded production. Industry advocates predicted that this gap would...
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