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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Rolling Meadows, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
Authored Entry
) ...such as 3Com, Helene Curtis, and Charles Industries established bases in what has become known as...
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Sailing and Boating, Geoffrey Baer(
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) ...not own boats, there is a booming tour boat industry. Dozens of cruise ships, small tour boats, and...
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Woodridge, IL, Aaron Harwig(
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) ...preserve quickly disappearing land. Wilton Industries, then a division of Pillsbury, located in the...
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Brookfield, IL, Emily Clark(
Authored Entry
) ...western suburb of Chicago. There is little industry or major business in the village, although the...
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Lansing, IL, Dave Bartlett(
Authored Entry
) ...and '70s stimulated the growth of light industry, commerce, and population. The 2000 population was...
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Ashburn, Sherry Meyer(
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) ...Having suffered a significant loss of industry and commerce, GAPA actively courts a diverse range of...
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Oak Lawn, IL, Betsy Gurlacz(
Authored Entry
) ...village, mainly flanking 95th Street, with some industry in the southern and northwestern areas. The...
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Palos Heights, IL, Betsy Gurlacz(
Authored Entry
) ...employer, opened its doors in 1972. There is no industry in the community. Palos Heights is governed...
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Back of the Yards, James R. Barrett(
Authored Entry
) ...problems. With the end of Chicago's meatpacking industry by the 1960s, Back of the Yards once again...
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Woman's World's Fair, 1925, Maureen A. Flanagan(
Authored Entry
) ...in the arts, literature, science, and industry. These exhibits were also intended as a source for...
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George Pullman and His Town, Liston E. Leyendecker(
Authored Entry
) ...his competitors until he controlled the industry. As a leading industrialist, he assisted in...
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Willie Dixon and the Blues, Adam Green(
Authored Entry
) ...involved with the emerging blues recording industry in Chicago. Dixon's best work came during his...
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John Fitzpatrick and the CFL, Rick Halpern(
Authored Entry
) ...mass organizing drives in the steel and meatpacking industries and supported the effort to unionize...
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Samuel Insull: Electric Magnate, Harold L. Platt(
Authored Entry
) ...business and emerged as a national leader of the industry. Proclaiming that “low rates may mean good...
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Canaryville, James R. Barrett(
Authored Entry
) ...and meatpacking from the 1860s until the industry's decline in the postwar era. Canaryville's name...
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Federal Writers' Project, Carlo Rotella(
Authored Entry
) ...as studies of subjects ranging from baseball to industry. The project also afforded writers time to...
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