| 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 $...
|
| 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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| 2231 |
"Matter for Financiers," 1887, 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: 1887,
Date Depicted: 1887
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| 2232 |
Training School for City, Home and Foreign Missions, 1899, Creator: Chicago Training School(
Historical Source
) ...Creator: Chicago Training School...
...Cover of Fourteenth Annual Catalogue, Chicago Training School for City, Home and Foreign Missions of...
Date Created: 1899,
Date Depicted: 1899
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| 2233 |
"City's Treated Sewage Still Harbor's Polio," 1943, Creator: Chicago Tribune(
Historical Source
) ...Creator: Chicago Tribune...
...On September 28, 1943, the Chicago Tribune reported that a local congressman sought an additional...
Date Created: 1943,
Date Depicted: 1943
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| 2234 |
Anderson Family Ice Fishing, 1923, Photographer: Chicago Daily News(
Historical Source
) ...Photographer: Chicago Daily News...
...son of a U.S. Coast Guard officer stationed at Chicago ice fishes with his father. Ice fishing was a...
Date Created: 1923,
Date Depicted: 1923
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| 2235 |
Indoor Ice Tennis, 1918, Photographer: Chicago Daily News(
Historical Source
) ...Photographer: Chicago Daily News...
...played here on an unidentified indoor space in Chicago in 1918. Two young men and two young women...
Date Created: 1918,
Date Depicted: 1918
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| 2236 |
Edward Brennan, 1926, Photographer: Chicago Daily News(
Historical Source
) ...Photographer: Chicago Daily News...
...profited from his work on the reform of Chicago's addresses. His efforts were recognized in a...
...respectively--but his overall plan still makes life easier for every Chicago resident and visitor....
Date Created: 1926,
Date Depicted: 1926
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| 2237 |
Existing and Proposed Highways in the Metropolitan Region, c.1926, Creator: Chicago Regional Planning Association(
Historical Source
) ...Creator: Chicago Regional Planning Association...
...In 1926, the Chicago Regional Planning Association published a study...
...of Highways in the Region of Chicago, concluding, "The one cure for traffic congestion is to build...
Date Created: c.1926,
Date Depicted: c.1926
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| 2238 |
Reproduction of Memory, Page 2, (
Historical Source
) ...of 1871 ; Land Use ; Railroads ; Sports, Industrial League 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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| 2239 |
Studs Place, (
Historical Source
) ...his own rendition of Wagner. Creator: Studs Terkel 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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| 2240 |
Boys along Lakeshore in Evanston, 1905, Photographer: Chicago Daily News(
Historical Source
) ...Photographer: Chicago Daily News...
...was private. The first public beach opened in Chicago at Lincoln Park in 1896. Suburban beaches,...
Date Created: 1905,
Date Depicted: 1905
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