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331 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...
332 Railroads, John C. Hudson( Authored Entry )
...role in the grain marketing and meatpacking industries. Many of the railroads built west of Chicago...
333 Riverdale, Janice L. Reiff( Authored Entry )
...town, and the Pullman brickyards. Its largest industry began as the Calumet Paint Company in an...
334 Romanians, Robert Morrissey( Authored Entry )
...works. Women worked predominantly in garment industries. A small percentage of Romanian workers...
335 Russians, Katarzyna Zechenter( Authored Entry )
...immigrants worked largely in the clothing industry; others became butchers, small merchants, or...
336 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...
337 South Deering, David Bensman( Authored Entry )
...an assetless subsidiary of Envirodyne Industries, in 1977. The Progressive Steelworkers Union signed...
338 Syrians, Sarah Gualtieri( Authored Entry )
...Israel. Faced with overpopulation, declining local industries, and punishing debt, “Syrians” (as the...
339 Belmont Cragin, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry( Authored Entry )
...Cragin is a community built on commerce and industry. The first business was a saloon opened by...
340 Brighton Park, Clinton E. Stockwell( Authored Entry )
...Instead, Brighton Park attracted other industries, including the Northwestern Horse Nail Company, a...
341 Consumer Credit, Lendol Calder( Authored Entry )
...honest, but the few who were not gave the entire industry a reputation for remorseless extortion. A...
342 Chicago River, Charles Nilon( Authored Entry )
...major center of the lumber and meatpacking industries during the nineteenth century. Access through...
343 Public Broadcasting, Allyson Hobbs( Authored Entry )
...later relocated to the Museum of Science and Industry as a “working exhibit” and increased its on-...
344 Forest Glen, David M. Solzman( Authored Entry )
...century, Forest Glen had a scattering of industry along the rail tracks and limited commercial...
345 Hermosa, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry( Authored Entry )
...is disputed. Although railroads brought some industry, and annexation slowly added municipal service...
346 Archer Heights, Jonathan J. Keyes( Authored Entry )
...and commercial growth overtook residential growth. Industry, initially in the Crawford Industrial...
347 Jefferson Park, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry( Authored Entry )
...this access to transportation, relatively little industry developed in Jefferson Park. A complex of...
348 Lemont, IL, John D. Schroeder( Authored Entry )
...and shoe manufacturing. As the high-tech industry of its time, the Illinois Pure Aluminum Company (...
349 Libraries, Cook County, Alice Calabrese( Authored Entry )
...provide technical resources to those in the baking industry. Elementary and high schools have opened...
350 Lombard, IL, Elizabeth M. Holland( Authored Entry )
...a growing population. While commuters came, industry also developed. The Lombard train station was...

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