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