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Grocery Stores and Supermarkets, Paul Gilmore(
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) ...Supplying Chicagoans with a basic necessity, the retail food industry has not experienced the rise,...
...decline, and renaissance that other industries in the area have seen; instead, it has steadily grown...
...fierce competition that characterized their industry, Chicago's retail food store owners formed many...
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Leather and Tanning, David Blanke(
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) ...and especially the growth of the meatpacking industry made it particularly receptive to large-scale...
...that 24 people. While fostered by the packing industry, these larger tanners remained independent...
...sacrificed quality for quantity. Leather-related industries in Chicago lagged in union membership....
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Northlake, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
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) ...itself. It is seeking to rejuvenate sagging industry, revitalize business, and bring about...
...of farmland. The start of World War II brought industry to neighboring Melrose Park when the Buick...
...the south and west of the community, giving industry access to transportation , and major industry...
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Cosmetics and Hair Care Products, Mark R. Wilson(
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) ...companies that had been so prominent in the industry since the 1950s, only Alberto-Culver—with about...
...participated in the rise of the cosmetics industry during the twentieth century not only as...
...the development of the cosmetics and hair care industries through the leadership of several of the...
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Franklin Park, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
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) ...blue-collar workers employed by the complex of industries. Good location and easy access to O'Hare...
...spur tracks accessing the rear of buildings have made Franklin Park a desirable place for industry....
...later, Franklin Park boasted over 1,200 industries and related businesses covering 60 percent of the...
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Furniture, John B. Jentz(
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) ...Chicago's furniture industry expanded in the mid-nineteenth century by serving a regional rural...
...represented among furniture manufacturers in an industry where small craft shops and medium-sized...
...shipping and the railroads. They were also near industries producing byproducts of the meatpacking...
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Work, David Moberg(
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) ...dramatic transformations, both in the type of industries that dominated and in the organization of...
...of most early-nineteenth-century American industry, Chicago's earliest manufacturing took place in...
...and worker resistance. In Chicago, major industries such as construction, meatpacking , garment...
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Unionization, James R. Barrett(
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) ...also built a large printing and publishing industry and, as a corporate, legal, and medical center,...
...the city. Except for the clothing and garment industry, where strikes in 1909 and 1910 led to the...
...of the breakthroughs among the unskilled in basic industries were eradicated by 1922, and political...
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Hardware Manufacturing, Timothy E. Sullivan(
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) ...were fabricated that the hardware manufacturing industry came to include the production of all sorts...
...The assortment and adaptability of products manufactured by the hardware industry also...
...lends the industry a distinctly American character. With access to resources from its hinterland...
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Laundries and Laundering, Arwen Mohun(
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) ...in the late 1930s. Nationwide, the laundry industry began to go into decline in the 1930s, reeling...
...of electric washing machines for the home. The industry currently survived into the twenty-first...
...In contrast to many better-known Chicago industries, women workers predominated in laundries. They...
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Business of Chicago, Peter A. Coclanis(
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) ...and a leading producer of iron and steel, industries that would grow dramatically in the years to...
...ground in relative terms to higher-order industries based on metal fabrication, particularly the...
...two areas: Chicago was America's center of heavy industry, New York, the center of light industry....
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Chemicals, Mark R. Wilson(
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) ...a leading producer of phosphate fertilizers; CF Industries, a maker of nitrogenous fertilizers; the...
...sodium carbonate) and insecticides; and CBI Industries (a descendant of the Chicago Bridge & Iron...
...Although the chemical industry has never represented one of the leading economic sectors in Chicago,...
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Mail Order, Mark R. Wilson(
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) ...or supplemented with electronic versions, the city continued to be a leading hub in the industry....
...were the leaders of the early mail-order industry and became giant enterprises through catalog sales...
...issued giant catalogs, the city's mail-order industry was no longer the precocious adolescent it had...
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Liquor Distribution, Sudhir Venkatesh(
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) ...for liquor manufacturing and retailing. The industry formed in close conjunction with Chicago's...
...organized efforts to restrict liquor spurred industry cooperation. In the early 1870s, the “Liberty...
...Liquor Dealers Protective Association, the industry's first statewide lobby, was organized. Local...
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Breweries, Harold L. Platt(
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) ...of Prohibition in 1933, the city's brewing industry did not recover in the face of competition from...
...nation's largest center of the malt liquor industry. In addition to its looming economic importance,...
...bad. The virtually complete domination of the industry in Chicago by German immigrants and their...
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Waukegan, IL, Wallace Best(
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) ...miles south of Milwaukee, can be attributed to industry, Lake Michigan, and the railroads . Toward...
...century, Waukegan became a thriving center of industry with enterprises that included ship and wagon...
...The most successful of these early Waukegan industries was the brewing of malt liquors. By the late...
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Mobile Homes, Anna Holian(
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) ...Chicago was the center of Illinois' mobile home industry. Reflecting the broad manufacturing base of...
...and machinery, the local mobile home industry included two of the largest early producers, Glider...
...Indian Trailer Corporation. Still, the local industry did not survive into the 1960s. The high cost...
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North Chicago, IL, Wallace Best(
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) ...city revenue in the form of license fees. Industry expanded rapidly in North Chicago. In 1892...
...in Worcester, Massachusetts, became the first industry to locate in North Chicago. The Illinois...
...two other major late-nineteenth-century industries to locate in North Chicago. The Chicago Hardware...
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Metropolitan Growth, Ann Durkin Keating(
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) ...Chicago , and Hammond . Agricultural processing industries also located near the rails: in Roselle,...
...established a factory in Villa Park . Heavy industries also located along the railroad lines....
...raw materials and ship finished products. These industries drew new residents into and around the...
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Savings and Loans, Jeffrey A. Brune(
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) ...to change their business practices and join industry organizations met with mixed success. Many of...
...the government took a much stronger role in the industry, both through regulation and by insuring...
...administrations substantially deregulated the industry. To bolster their business, many associations...
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