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Itasca, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
Authored Entry
) ...and coal store provided jobs when the dairy industry left the area. In the 1960s construction moved...
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Kensington, Janice L. Reiff(
Authored Entry
) ...Kensington police station, and St. Anthony's. As industries began to close in the 1960s and 1970s,...
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Lake Zurich, IL, Craig L. Pfannkuche(
Authored Entry
) ...icehouses were built with a view to developing an industry, it failed to prosper because of poor...
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Macedonians, Gregory Michaelidis(
Authored Entry
) ...Macedonians worked almost exclusively in heavy industry. Many found work in Chicago's rail yards....
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Motorola Inc., Timothy J. Gilfoyle(
Authored Entry
) ...of semiconductors for the booming computer industry. In 1993, Robert Galvin's son Christopher was...
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Mount Greenwood, Clinton E. Stockwell(
Authored Entry
) ...new homes were built. But there was only one industry in Mount Greenwood, the Beverly Shear Company,...
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Niles, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
Authored Entry
) ...Air Electric Ventilating Company, later Ilg Industries, was located in Chicago, Ilg lived in Niles....
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Northbrook, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
Authored Entry
) ...Loop. Prior to the establishment of a brick industry, Northbrook was a sleepy little settlement. In...
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Posen, IL, Larry A. McClellan(
Authored Entry
) ...farmers, and immediately to the east, the new industries in Harvey provided jobs. Although Harvey...
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Water in Chicago, Ann Keating(
Interpretive Digital Essay
) ...turned lakes and waterways into resources for industry, recreation, and transportation, and made...
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Governing the Metropolis, Anthony Orum(
Authored Entry
) ...Austin and Pullman , grew as a result of the industries located nearby. By 1880 there were more than...
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Railroads, John C. Hudson(
Authored Entry
) ...role in the grain marketing and meatpacking industries. Many of the railroads built west of Chicago...
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Riverdale, Janice L. Reiff(
Authored Entry
) ...town, and the Pullman brickyards. Its largest industry began as the Calumet Paint Company in an...
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Romanians, Robert Morrissey(
Authored Entry
) ...works. Women worked predominantly in garment industries. A small percentage of Romanian workers...
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Russians, Katarzyna Zechenter(
Authored Entry
) ...immigrants worked largely in the clothing industry; others became butchers, small merchants, or...
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Barrington Hills, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
Authored Entry
) ...army recruiting station during the Civil War . Industry came to the area for a short period in the...
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South Deering, David Bensman(
Authored Entry
) ...an assetless subsidiary of Envirodyne Industries, in 1977. The Progressive Steelworkers Union signed...
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Syrians, Sarah Gualtieri(
Authored Entry
) ...Israel. Faced with overpopulation, declining local industries, and punishing debt, “Syrians” (as the...
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Belmont Cragin, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
Authored Entry
) ...Cragin is a community built on commerce and industry. The first business was a saloon opened by...
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Brighton Park, Clinton E. Stockwell(
Authored Entry
) ...Instead, Brighton Park attracted other industries, including the Northwestern Horse Nail Company, a...
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