| 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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| 2161 |
Cleveland, San Francisco, and Manila, (
Interpretive Digital Essay (Gallery)
) ...description to major portions of what Burnham recommended for Chicago. Illustration 2889 3683...
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| 2162 |
Millennial Homage, (
Interpretive Digital Essay (Gallery)
) ...the mid-1950s. Photographer: Unknown Source: Chicago Historical Society (ICHi-03394) Illustration...
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| 2163 |
Playboy Enterprises Inc., Max Grinnell.(
Business Dictionary
) ...and Playboy employed about 500 people in the Chicago area. Playboy's revenues and circulation fell...
...University, started Playboy magazine in Chicago in 1953. The first printing of 50,000 copies, which...
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| 2164 |
Schoenhofen (Peter) Brewing Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...of the 1970s, there was nothing left of its Chicago operations, although Dewery's reintroduced the...
...Peter Schoenhofen, a Prussian immigrant, was in Chicago working in the brewing trade by the 1850s....
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| 2165 |
Embracing / Rejecting the Grid, Page 2, (
Historical Source
) ...Cemeteries ; Metropolitan Growth ; Streets and Highways 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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| 2166 |
Case Study: Fort Dearborn, Page 2, (
Historical Source
) ...1933 Photographer: Kaufmann & Fabry Co. Source: Chicago Historical Society (ICHi-37957) Visitors to...
...Century of Progress Exposition could measure Chicago's progress by walking through a replica of Fort...
...of the world, visitors could engage Chicago's history by becoming tourists of a reconstruction of a...
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| 2167 |
Religion and Society, (
Historical Source
) ...Communism ; Iron- and Steelworkers ; Unionization ; Work 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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| 2168 |
Allstate Corp., (
Business Dictionary
) ...Allstate employed close to 10,000 people in the Chicago area and over 40,000 nationwide. See also...
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| 2169 |
Bethlehem Steel Corp., (
Business Dictionary
) ...Bethlehem Steel came late to the Chicago area and never made its headquarters there, but it was a...
...did not operate any large mills in the Chicago region during this period. It finally arrived in...
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| 2170 |
Curtiss Candy Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...Founded in Chicago in 1916 by Otto Schnering, Curtiss Candy did just under $100,000 in sales during...
...candy industry. Control of the company left the Chicago area in 1964, when Curtiss was purchased by...
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