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Outboard Marine Corp., (
Business Dictionary
) ...second leading manufacturer of boats (the Chicago-based Brunswick Corp. was the leader), the company...
...1970s, the company had about 7,000 workers in the Chicago region, most of them in Waukegan. By the...
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Rationalization of Streets, (
Historical Source
) ...in the country of even one-half the area of Chicago." See also: City Club of Chicago ; Government,...
...City of Chicago ; Street Naming The...
...Electronic Encyclopedia of Chicago © 2005 Chicago Historical Society. The Encyclopedia of Chicago ©...
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Baker & McKenzie, (
Business Dictionary
) ...Soon after leaving the University of Chicago Law School in 1925, Russell Baker, a native of New...
...Baker & Rice; it soon represented major Chicago companies such as Abbott Laboratories. In 1949 Baker...
...about 15 percent of whom were located in Chicago. By the end of the 1990s, the firm employed over...
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| 2124 |
Hammond Organ Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...the company employed over 1,000 people in the Chicago area, it changed its name from Hammond Musical...
...$100 million, Hammond had four plants in the Chicago area and employed a total of 4,500 people...
...conglomerate owned by the Pritzker family of Chicago. By the 1990s, Hammond was owned by the Suzuki...
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Hyatt Hotels Corp., (
Business Dictionary
) ...by Jay Pritzker, a member of the wealthy Chicago family descended from Nicholas Pritzker, who...
...by the Pritzker family and still based in Chicago, Hyatt and Hyatt International together operated...
...about 80,000 people around the world. In the Chicago area, the companies had about 3,500 workers....
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| 2126 |
Scholl Inc., (
Business Dictionary
) ...While most of its operations were based in Chicago, the company was incorporated in New York in...
...at its facilities on West Schiller Street in Chicago. Annual sales reached $65 million in 1967 and...
...across the country, including about 750 in the Chicago area. At the end of the 1970s, Scholl was...
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| 2127 |
U.S. Robotics Inc., (
Business Dictionary
) ...in 1976 by Casey Cowell, Stephen Muka, and three other alumni of the University of Chicago. From...
...its first headquarters on Lincoln Avenue in Chicago, the company introduced the first commercial...
...the company employed about 3,500 people at its Chicago-area plants in the suburbs of Skokie, Morton...
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| 2128 |
Kellogg Switchboard & Supply Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...In 1870, Milo G. Kellogg moved to Chicago from New York State and began working as a design engineer...
...mid-1930s, Kellogg still employed about 400 Chicago-area residents. The company's entrance into the...
...1,000 people were employed. All of ITT Kellogg's Chicago operations were moved to Tennessee in 1962....
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| 2129 |
Admiral Corp., (
Business Dictionary
) ...of televisions manufactured at plants in Chicago. By the beginning of the 1960s, when annual...
...company employed 8,500 people, many of them Chicago-area residents. Like many American electronics...
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| 2130 |
American Can Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...1901 through the merger of dozens of plants around the country, including some in the Chicago area....
...Although it was not headquartered in Chicago, American Can became an important actor in the local...
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| 2131 |
Anixter Bros. Inc., (
Business Dictionary
) ...Corp. , a large holding company controlled by Chicago financier Sam Zell. Itel soon sold many of its...
...1990s, Anixter sold close to $3 billion annually and employed about 1,000 Chicago-area residents....
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| 2132 |
Commerce Clearing House, Inc., (
Business Dictionary
) ...Kix Miller started Commerce Clearing House, a Chicago-based publisher of guides to commercial and...
...1986, the company moved its headquarters from Chicago to suburban Riverwoods. Annual revenues grew...
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| 2133 |
Crate & Barrel, (
Business Dictionary
) ...retail chain was created in 1962 by two young Chicago residents, Gordon and Carole Segal. The Segals...
...locations in Wilmette, Oak Brook, and downtown Chicago on Michigan Avenue. In 1983, soon after it...
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| 2134 |
Harpo Productions Inc., (
Business Dictionary
) ...during the 1970s and early 1980s, arrived in Chicago in 1984. Her Oprah Winfrey Show, which started...
...and Harpo Productions had annual revenues of about $150 million with about 200 Chicago employees....
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| 2135 |
Hewitt Associates, (
Business Dictionary
) ...After a half century of astonishing growth, Chicago's largest management consulting business went...
...$2 billion. Its headquarters, located in the Chicago suburb of Lincolnshire, employed 3,400 full-...
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| 2136 |
Hubbard (Gurdon S.) & Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...One of Chicago's first business leaders, Gurdon S. Hubbard worked in the town during the 1820s, when...
...months. Hubbard continued to be a leading Chicago packer during the 1850s, when he shipped barrels...
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| 2137 |
Kent (A. E.) & Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...brother Sydney Kent, who had been working in Chicago merchant houses, founded their own meatpacking...
...more than 62,000 hogs and 14,000 cattle at its Chicago facilities. Kent continued to rank among the...
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| 2138 |
Schlesinger & Mayer, (
Business Dictionary
) ...This dry-goods merchant house was founded in Chicago in 1872 by Leopold Schlesinger and David Mayer,...
...to dramatically redesign its large downtown Chicago department store at State and Madison Streets,...
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| 2139 |
Cubs, Steven A. Riess(
Authored Entry
) ...history, but lost the World Series to the Chicago White Sox. Officially adopting the Cubs moniker in...
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| 2140 |
Case Study: Jean Baptiste Point DuSable, (
Historical Source
) ...the name DuSable Museum. See also: DuSable Museum ; Mayors The Electronic Encyclopedia of Chicago ©...
...2005 Chicago Historical Society....
...The Encyclopedia of Chicago © 2004 The Newberry Library. All Rights Reserved. Portions are...
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