| 2211 |
Century of Progress Exposition, (
Historical Source
) ...Delano Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt. Creator: Unknown Institution: Chicago Historical Society The...
...Electronic Encyclopedia of Chicago ©...
...2005 Chicago Historical Society. The Encyclopedia of Chicago © 2004 The Newberry Library. All Rights...
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| 2212 |
"Wheat War Is Hot," 1897, Creator: Chicago Tribune(
Historical Source
) ...Creator: Chicago Tribune...
...Leiter, the son of Levi Z. Leiter, a successful Chicago merchant. Armour even hired tugboats to keep...
...the water open in the Duluth harbor until grain vessels could bring the wheat to Chicago....
Date Created: 1897,
Date Depicted: 1897
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| 2213 |
"Modern kitchen," Park Ridge, 1910, Photographer: Chicago Daily News(
Historical Source
) ...Photographer: Chicago Daily News...
...Cooking in what a Chicago Daily Newsphotographer described as a "modern kitchen" in Park Ridge....
Date Created: 1910,
Date Depicted: 1910
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| 2214 |
Streetcar Terminus at Howard and Clark Streets, 1911, Photographer: Chicago Daily News(
Historical Source
) ...Photographer: Chicago Daily News...
...The Clark-Wentworth line of the Chicago street railway system was extended in 1893 to reach the...
...through the Loop to 81st and Halsted Streets on Chicago's South Side. By 1957, propane-gas powered...
Date Created: 1911,
Date Depicted: 1911
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| 2215 |
"Typical Goose Island Residence," 1891, Creator: Chicago Times(
Historical Source
) ...Creator: Chicago Times...
...Against a backdrop of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad and the smokestacks of local...
...By this point, evidence points to more familiar Chicago cottages and two-flats on Hickory, North...
Date Created: 1891,
Date Depicted: 1891
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| 2216 |
"Lets More Grain Go," 1897, Creator: Chicago Tribune(
Historical Source
) ...Creator: Chicago Tribune...
...Leiter, the son of Levi Z. Leiter, a successful Chicago merchant. Armour even hired tugboats to keep...
...the water open in the Duluth harbor until grain vessels could bring the wheat to Chicago....
Date Created: 1897,
Date Depicted: 1897
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| 2217 |
"Crash in Leiter Deal," 1898, Creator: Chicago Tribune(
Historical Source
) ...Creator: Chicago Tribune...
...Leiter, the son of Levi Z. Leiter, a successful Chicago merchant. Armour even hired tugboats to keep...
...the water open in the Duluth harbor until grain vessels could bring the wheat to Chicago....
Date Created: 1898,
Date Depicted: 1898
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| 2218 |
"Halt the Hun," 1918, Photographer: Chicago Daily News(
Historical Source
) ...Photographer: Chicago Daily News...
...Charles W. Folds, president of United Charities of Chicago, affixes a Liberty Loans poster in 1918....
Date Created: 1918,
Date Depicted: 1918
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| 2219 |
Andrews (A. H.) & Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...H. Andrews, a Connecticut native who moved to Chicago in 1857. By the end of the 1860s, Andrews...
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| 2220 |
Ceco Corp., (
Business Dictionary
) ...company's 2,800 total employees worked in the Chicago area. In 1961, operating plants in suburban...
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| 2221 |
Comdisco Inc., (
Business Dictionary
) ...and employed nearly 1,500 people in the Chicago area. Comdisco expanded in the Internet boom, then...
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| 2222 |
King (Henry W.) & Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...In 1854, Henry W. King arrived in Chicago and helped to found Barrett, King & Co. , a clothing...
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| 2223 |
Kroehler Manufacturing Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...employed several hundred men and women in the Chicago area. By the middle of the 1940s, with over $...
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| 2224 |
National Packing Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...In 1902, the leading Chicago-based packing companies (including Armour, Swift, and Morris) agreed to...
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| 2225 |
Nicor Inc., (
Business Dictionary
) ...1910s. In 1911, a group of investors including Chicago utilities titan Samuel Insull created the...
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| 2226 |
Northern Indiana Public Service Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...Insull, who owned utilities all around the Chicago area. In 1926, Insull combined Northern Indiana...
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| 2227 |
Phelps, Dodge & Palmer, (
Business Dictionary
) ...and George E. P. Dodge moved from Boston to Chicago and founded Phelps & Dodge, a shoe wholesaling...
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| 2228 |
Samuel Adams, Bridge Tender, 1911, Photographer: Chicago Daily News(
Historical Source
) ...Photographer: Chicago Daily News...
...bridge tender at the Madison Avenue Bridge connecting Chicago's Loop to the Near West Side in 1911....
Date Created: 1911,
Date Depicted: 1911
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| 2229 |
Obituary for Gustav Massman, 1985, Author: Kenan Heise, Chicago Tribune(
Historical Source
) ...Author: Kenan Heise, Chicago Tribune...
...Gustav Massman was a longtime bridge tender in Chicago. For many years, he was in charge of the...
...Goose Island. His obituary offers a glimpse of life as a bridge tender in twentieth-century Chicago....
Date Created: 1985,
Date Depicted: 1985
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| 2230 |
"Goose Island," 1885, Creator: Chicago Tribune(
Historical Source
) ...Creator: Chicago Tribune...
...elevators on Goose Island were built in 1887 by the Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul Railroad (of...
...was an major investor) to hold grain brought into Chicago from its north/northwest hinterland....
Date Created: 1885,
Date Depicted: 1885
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