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Sri Lankans, Tracy Steffes(
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) ...occupations including taxi driving and service industries. Efforts to organize as a community have...
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Pilsen, Erik Gellman(
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) ...During World War I , labor shortages in area industries induced over two dozen different immigrant...
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Albanians, Nicholas C. Pano(
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) ...factories, restaurants , or the construction industry. Chicago's Albanians, like their compatriots...
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Dixmoor, IL, Larry A. McClellan(
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) ...for Dixmoor was tied to the metal-fabricating industries in Harvey. The large Wyman-Gordon plant was...
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Dominicans, Rafael Nuñez-Cedeño(
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) ...meatpacking , garment, and electronics industries as well as in the service sectors. Notwithstanding...
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Downers Grove, IL, Mark S. Harmon(
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) ...economy included corporate headquarters, light industry, service, and retail businesses. Downers...
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Edison Park, Ann Durkin Keating(
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) ...a major building boom. Businesses and industry began locating nearby and automobile travel made the...
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Elmhurst, IL, Jane S. Teague(
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) ...farmers, local businessmen, and owners of area industries. In 1883 Adolph Hammerschmidt and Henry...
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Evergreen Park, IL, Betsy Gurlacz(
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) ...Park is predominantly residential, with little industry. The Little Company of Mary Hospital is the...
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Flossmoor, IL, John H. Long(
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) ...local laws was an ordinance that prohibited industry within the town limits, thus guaranteeing the...
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Forest Park, IL, Jean Louise Guarino(
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) ...in New York. Since the 1870s, Forest Park's main industry has been several large cemeteries —Jewish...
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Fox River, David M. Solzman(
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) ...it provides picturesque water frontage for industries and for parks and other recreational uses....
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Griffith, IN, Jennifer Mrozowski(
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) ...residents attracted to jobs in the railroad industry, at the steel mills in Gary and East Chicago ,...
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Hanover Park, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
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) ...in DuPage County. North of Irving Park Road industries began to boom. Tradewinds Shopping Center on...
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Harvard, IL, Craig L. Pfannkuche(
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) ...quickly became the center of a thriving dairy industry. The railroad cheaply transported fresh milk...
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Hickory Hills, IL, Larry A. McClellan(
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) ...for migrant workers employed in defense industries in the Chicago region. In 1951, the desire on the...
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Highland, IN, Jennifer Mrozowski(
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) ...much of the cabbage for the town's first industry, a kraut factory. A second kraut factory was also...
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Highwood, IL, Lisa Cervac(
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) ...Fort Sheridan helped introduce the liquor industry to Highwood, the fort alone could not sustain the...
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Hoffman Estates, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
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) ...land that Hoffman Estates planned to use for industry. Hoffman Estates continued, however, with a...
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Homewood, IL, John H. Long(
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) ...to Chicago, and local businesses and some industry developed to serve their needs, including a...
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