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2171 International Minerals & Chemical Corp., ( Business Dictionary )
...and moved its headquarters from Atlanta to Chicago. By the beginning of the 1960s, when its main...
...people around the country but only a few in the Chicago area. By the end of the 1990s, the company...
2172 Kuppenheimer (B.) & Co., ( Business Dictionary )
...years old. In 1865, he became a partner in the Chicago clothing firm of Kohn, Claybugh & Einstein,...
...1982, when it was purchased by another old Chicago clothing company, Hart, Schaffner & Marx (later...
2173 Tellabs Inc., ( Business Dictionary )
...by Michael Birk and others in Lisle, just west of Chicago. The company started with 20 employees and...
...around the world, almost half of those in Chicago. Tellabs followed its industry downward in the...
2174 Case Study: Fort Dearborn, ( Historical Source )
...Wau-Bun</emph>, 1856 Artist: Unknown Source: Chicago Historical Society (ICHi-38122) The predominant...
...>Wau-Bun</emph> recounted Kinzie's experiences in Chicago from 1833 as well as Kinzie family stories...
...popular imagination of Chicagoans. See also: Chicago in the Middle Ground ; Fort Dearborn ; Literary...
2175 Neighborhood Change, 1853-2003 (Essay), Map Author: Michael P. Conzen and (Research assistance: Douglas Knox, Dennis McClendon)( Rich Map (Essay) )
...had been built. By 1877, following the great Chicago fire the eleven-block area had largely filled...
2176 Safety-Kleen Corp., ( Business Dictionary )
...company was purchased by the Elgin-Based Chicago Rawhide Manufacturing Co. , then led by Donald W....
...opened a large oil-recycling plant in East Chicago, Indiana. The company's profits and rate of...
2177 Indoor Baseball Game, 1905, Photographer: Chicago Daily News( Historical Source )
...Photographer: Chicago Daily News...
...Indoor baseball game in Chicago, between...
...All Chicago and Illinois Central....
Date Created: 1905, Date Depicted: 1905
2178 Reproduction of Memory, ( Historical Source )
...1930s a few older municipalities, including Chicago and Aurora, observed their centennials. During...
...</emph>, 1976. See also: Chambers of Commerce ; Leisure The Electronic Encyclopedia of Chicago ©...
...2005 Chicago Historical Society. The Encyclopedia of Chicago © 2004 The Newberry Library. All Rights...
2179 Armour, Dole & Co., ( Business Dictionary )
...owned a grain elevator at the depot of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad with a capacity of...
2180 Hoyt (William M.) & Co., ( Business Dictionary )
...The descendant of a Chicago grocery store founded in the 1850s, William M. Hoyt & Co. was created...
2181 Kellogg (Charles P.) & Co., ( Business Dictionary )
...A descendant of Chicago clothing companies founded in the 1850s, this large enterprise was founded...
2182 Palmer, Fuller & Co., ( Business Dictionary )
...the late nineteenth century, was founded in Chicago in 1866 by A. R. Palmer and W. A. Fuller. In...
2183 Incorporation, ( Historical Source )
...Suburban ; Great Depression ; Metropolitan Growth The Electronic Encyclopedia of Chicago ©...
...2005 Chicago Historical Society....
...The Encyclopedia of Chicago © 2004 The Newberry Library. All Rights Reserved. Portions are...
2184 The River Breaks the Grid, ( Historical Source )
...inflexible. In some place nature breaks through. The Chicago River, one of the major factors...
...the geography, topography, and existence of Chicago, cuts irregularly through the rectilinear grid...
...the surveyors. Act of Incorporation for the City of Chicago, 1837 Creator: State of Illinois Source:...
2185 Institutions of Memory, Page 2, ( Historical Source )
...Page 1 | Page 2 | Forward History Fair Photographer: Lisa Oppenheim Source: Chicago Metro History...
...Education Center The Chicago Metro History Education Center, founded in 1978,...
...an annual History Fair competition in which Chicago-area students in grades 6 through 12 develop...
2186 Embracing / Rejecting the Grid, ( Historical Source )
...portions of the city independently. As in Chicago, the added areas fit easily into the existing...
...Pollution ; Lake County, IN ; Real Estate ; Subdivisions The Electronic Encyclopedia of Chicago ©...
...2005 Chicago Historical Society. The Encyclopedia of Chicago © 2004 The Newberry Library. All Rights...
2187 Houseboat of Elma Lockwood Streeter, 1922, Photographer: Chicago Daily News( Historical Source )
...Photographer: Chicago Daily News...
...died. The boat is moored adjacent to the Ogden Slip, just north of the mouth of the Chicago River....
...most notorious families to live on a ship at Chicago. In 1886, Streeter's small ship ran aground on...
Date Created: 1922, Date Depicted: 1922
2188 Florence Scala at Hull House, ( Historical Source )
...its location on South Halsted Street. Creator: WGN News Institution: Chicago Historical Society The...
...Electronic Encyclopedia of Chicago ©...
...2005 Chicago Historical Society. The Encyclopedia of Chicago © 2004 The Newberry Library. All Rights...
2189 The Business of Religion, ( Historical Source )
...of Religion David Swing on Christianity in Chicago, 1873 Author: David Swing Source: Newberry...
...error, Swing contributed an essay on "the Chicago of the Christian" to a magazine that presented a...
...city's religious expression. David Swing, "The Chicago of the Christian," <emph>Lakeside Monthly</...
2190 Transportation and the Grid, ( Historical Source )
...1910 Publisher: McComber Directory Company Source: Chicago Historical Society (ICHi-37355) Although...
...Transportation ; Rapid Transit System ; Chicago's Rapid Transit Lines (Map) Existing and proposed...
...in the metropolitan region, c.1926 Creator: Chicago Regional Planning Association Source: Chicago...

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