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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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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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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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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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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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| 2141 |
Hammond (George H.) Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...important and no lon ger challenged the giant Chicago packers, who acquired Hammond at the turn of...
...rivaled those located at the Union Stock Yard in Chicago. By the middle of the 1880s, when it built...
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| 2142 |
Kimball (W. W.) Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...the company continued to employ hundreds of Chicago-area residents. In 1959, Kimball was purchased...
...W. Kimball, a native of Maine, moved from Iowa to Chicago in 1857, when he was 29 years old. Kimball...
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What We All Know: Icons of Memory, (
Historical Source
) ...powerful duality of beauty and horror, sunshine and shadow. See also: Crime and Chicago's Image ; If...
...Christ Came to Chicago ; Literary...
...Images of Chicago The Electronic Encyclopedia of Chicago © 2005 Chicago Historical Society. The...
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Household Finance Corp., (
Business Dictionary
) ...Frank Mackey, moved from Minneapolis-St. Paul to Chicago in 1894. In 1905, Mackey's company added to...
...that had long been operated by Butler Bros. of Chicago. In 1981, Household Finance changed its name...
...International employed about 4,700 people in the Chicago area. In 2003, Household International was...
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| 2145 |
Defining Territories, (
Historical Source
) ...New Mt. Hermon M. B. Church, 1975. See also: Chicago Stadium ; Church Architecture ; Places of...
...Assembly The Electronic Encyclopedia of Chicago ©...
...2005 Chicago Historical Society. The Encyclopedia of Chicago © 2004 The Newberry Library. All Rights...
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| 2146 |
Alberto-Culver Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...Blaine Culver and moved it from Los Angeles to Chicago. Before the move, Alberto-Culver already had...
...in annual sales and employed about 1,400 people in the Chicago area and almost 17,000 worldwide....
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| 2147 |
Cracker Jack Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...F. W. Rueckheim emigrated from Germany to Chicago in 1869. In 1872, Rueckheim and his brother Louis...
...the 1950s, the company employed over 1,000 Chicago-area residents. During the last decades of the...
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| 2148 |
Donnelley (R. R.) & Sons Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...veteran of the printing and publishing business in Chicago, started his own printing company, R. R....
...largest commercial printer. Of its some 34,000 employees, about 2,500 worked in the Chicago area....
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| 2149 |
Ekco Products Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...the company built a large new factory on Chicago's Northwest Side. In 1945, led by Arthur Katzinger,...
...the beginning of the 1960s, still based in Chicago, Ekco employed about 6,000 people and did about $...
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| 2150 |
Fair, The, (
Business Dictionary
) ...and Skokie. In 1957, the Fair was purchased by Montgomery Ward, a larger Chicago-based competitor....
...Founded in 1875 by Ernest J. Lehmann as a small Chicago retail shop, the Fair soon became a giant...
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