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231 Prairie Avenue, Heidi Pawlowski Carey( Authored Entry )
...Prairie Avenue became home to light industry and vacant lots in the mid to late twentieth century....
232 Record Publishing, Mark Clague( Authored Entry )
...Chicago's performers drive its record industry. While major labels maintain regional distribution...
233 Teamsters, Andrew Wender Cohen( Authored Entry )
...road networks enabled an interstate trucking industry employing many long-haul drivers. Around 1900...
234 East Dundee, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry( Authored Entry )
...had limited land expansion, East Dundee's industry and commerce have grown, including the annexation...
235 Labor Songs, Clark “Bucky” Halker( Authored Entry )
...from the burgeoning popular culture industry. Radicals, however, maintained and refined the labor...
236 Arts and Crafts Movement, Sharon S. Darling( Authored Entry )
...Crystal Lake . By 1914 these handicrafts industries, as well as the Arts and Crafts movement itself,...
237 Underground Economy, Christopher Thale( Authored Entry )
...claimed that 8,543 underage children worked in industry in Illinois cities in 1900. Enforcement was...
238 Food Processing: Local Market, Bruce Kraig( Authored Entry )
...meat processing was an important local industry. Archibald Clybourne's slaughterhouse, built in 1827...
...shipping trade. The great national meatpacking industry thus was born. Nevertheless, sales to local...
239 American Car & Foundry Co., ( Business Dictionary )
...AmericanCar, like many firms in the railroad industry, suffered from the rise of the automobile and...
240 West Pullman, Janice L. Reiff( Authored Entry )
...cleaning up toxic wastes and recruiting new industries and businesses. As they do, West Pullman...
241 The City the Planners Saw, Carl Smith( Interpretive Digital Essay (Essay) )
...city, and Chicago preeminently, is a center of industry and traffic." This observation is the...
...manufacturing establishments. In 1909 six major industries—men's and women's clothing (by far the...
...142,000 of Chicago's 294,000 wage earners. Heavy industry was concentrated along the North and South...
242 Transportation, H. Roger Grant( Authored Entry )
...paper towns. ” Water power and minerals added industry to the commercial base of many of the canal...
...the trunk railroads and to service metropolitan industry. FIGURE 1 FIGURE 1 FIGURE 1 Chicagoans also...
243 Century of Progress Exposition, Robert W. Rydell( Authored Entry )
...the fair its unofficial motto: “Science Finds, Industry Applies, Man Conforms. ” Lohr was asked to...
...museums, including the Museum of Science and Industry , which also received some of the exposition's...
244 Illinois Central Railroad (Corporate History), ( Business Dictionary )
...Rail (Metra). One year later, the road left IC Industries and became an independent railway company,...
...by the Canadian National Railway Co. for more than $2.4 billion. See also IC Industries Inc....
...to a holding company called Illinois Central Industries, which proceeded to enter a variety of...
245 Rolling Meadows, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry( Authored Entry )
...such as 3Com, Helene Curtis, and Charles Industries established bases in what has become known as...
246 Sailing and Boating, Geoffrey Baer( Authored Entry )
...not own boats, there is a booming tour boat industry. Dozens of cruise ships, small tour boats, and...
247 Woodridge, IL, Aaron Harwig( Authored Entry )
...preserve quickly disappearing land. Wilton Industries, then a division of Pillsbury, located in the...
248 Brookfield, IL, Emily Clark( Authored Entry )
...western suburb of Chicago. There is little industry or major business in the village, although the...
249 Lansing, IL, Dave Bartlett( Authored Entry )
...and '70s stimulated the growth of light industry, commerce, and population. The 2000 population was...
250 Ashburn, Sherry Meyer( Authored Entry )
...Having suffered a significant loss of industry and commerce, GAPA actively courts a diverse range of...

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