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Oak Lawn, IL, Betsy Gurlacz(
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) ...village, mainly flanking 95th Street, with some industry in the southern and northwestern areas. The...
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Palos Heights, IL, Betsy Gurlacz(
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) ...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(
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) ...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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Institute of Design, Stephen Daiter(
Authored Entry
) ...sponsorship of the Association of Arts and Industries with László Moholy-Nagy as its first director....
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International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, Moving Picture Technicians, Artists and Allied Crafts, Laurie Pintar(
Authored Entry
) ...during the late 1890s. As the motion picture industry developed over the next several decades, IA...
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Jackson Park, David M. Solzman(
Authored Entry
) ...and home to the famed Museum of Science and Industry . Jackson Park was originally designed in the...
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American Steel Foundries, (
Business Dictionary
) ...of steel castings in the United States. Amsted Industries continued to grow into the 1970s, when it...
...States. In 1962, when its name became Amsted Industries, the privately held company bested $100...
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National Malleable and Steel Castings Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...railroad, farm wagon, and horse-drawn carriage industries. In 1891, Chicago Malleable became part of...
...1923, when it had begun to supply the automobile industry, the company changed its name to National...
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Railroad Strike of 1877, Karen Sawislak(
Authored Entry
) ...in the railroad, meatpacking , and lumber industries. Thanks to a mass mobilization of “special”...
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South Loop, Dennis McClendon(
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) ...rail yards vacant, while changes in the printing industry had emptied out Printers' Row . The 1973...
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Batavia, IL, Marilyn Robinson(
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) ...railroads served Batavia's citizens and industries. In the last quarter of the nineteenth century,...
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Spaniards, Robert Morrissey(
Authored Entry
) ...to the area by jobs in steel mills and other industries. However, with the national quota system...
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Willowbrook, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
Authored Entry
) ...Suburban growth came in the 1970s, drawing industry and retail. Industrial parks include Willowbrook...
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