| 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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| 2143 |
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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| 2144 |
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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| 2151 |
Hall (W. F.) Printing Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...native who worked as a journeyman printer in Chicago during the 1880s, founded his own printing...
...printer, with about 5,000 employees in the Chicago area and over $100 million in annual revenues. In...
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| 2152 |
Hand (Peter) Brewing Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...the Peter Hand Brewery closed in 1978, there was not a single brewery left in the city of Chicago....
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| 2153 |
Kemper Corp., (
Business Dictionary
) ...million, the company moved its headquarters from Chicago to suburban Long Grove and became part of...
...2000s, laying off thousands of employees in Chicago and nationwide and, in 2003, selling off its...
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| 2154 |
Mandel Bros., (
Business Dictionary
) ...retail enterprise, which would become one of Chicago's leading department stores, was founded in...
...Purchasing in New York and Paris and selling in Chicago, the enterprise grew. By the 1880s, its new...
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| 2155 |
Mears, Bates & Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...as a young man and was trading lumber in Chicago as early as 1838. By 1850, when his brother Nathan...
...C. Mears & Co. , the business was based in Chicago. In 1859, Charles Mears departed to concentrate...
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| 2156 |
Morris (Nelson) & Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...German-born Nelson Morris arrived in Chicago in 1854 and found work with meatpacker John B. Sherman....
...sales were about $11 million. Like other leading Chicago packers such as Swift and Armour, Morris's...
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| 2157 |
ServiceMaster Industries Inc., (
Business Dictionary
) ...company had annual revenues of $3.6 billion and employed about 2,500 workers in the Chicago area....
...ServiceMaster had about 600 employees in the Chicago area. The company diversified in the 1980s and...
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| 2158 |
Pullman Inc., Martha T. Briggs. and Cynthia H. Peters(
Business Dictionary
) ...In 1977, Pullman Inc. , still based in Chicago, had annual revenues of $2 billion and employed...
...the end of the 1850s, George M. Pullman of Chicago began to remodel passenger coach railroad cars....
...on a site about 14 miles south of downtown Chicago. By 1885, the population of the town had risen to...
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| 2159 |
Western Electric Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...Gray and Enos Barton, moved from Cleveland to Chicago immediately after it was established. In 1872,...
...associated with one of the worst accidents in Chicago history, when the Eastland, a vessel filled...
...annual outing, capsized at its dock in the Chicago River, killing more than 800 people. By the...
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| 2160 |
Institutions of Memory, (
Historical Source
) ...also: Agriculture ; Aurora, IL ; Fox River ; Newspapers ; Newspapers, Outside Chicago (Table) The...
...Electronic Encyclopedia of Chicago ©...
...2005 Chicago Historical Society. The Encyclopedia of Chicago © 2004 The Newberry Library. All Rights...
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