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351 Luxembourgers, Kathleen Neils Conzen( Authored Entry )
...urban occupations gradually undermined the industry after the 1920s, and with it the most important...
352 Naperville, IL, Ann Durkin Keating( Authored Entry )
...residential, retail, industrial, and service industries boomed in and around Naperville. The city...
353 Chicago & North Western Railway Co., ( Business Dictionary )
...became part of a conglomerate, Northwest Industries; four years later, the railroad was spun off and...
...bought by another old railroad company, the Union Pacific Corp. See also Northwest Industries Inc....
354 Rogers Park, Patricia Mooney-Melvin( Authored Entry )
...ultimately succumbed to changes in the movie industry as well as different tastes among the viewing...
355 Serbs, Peter T. Alter( Authored Entry )
...for unskilled work in the region's booming heavy industries. Most Serbian immigrants in the United...
356 Slovaks, Emily Brunner( Authored Entry )
...and stockyards. Women worked in light industry and in the stockyards, although most families...
357 Tourism and Conventions, Anne Moore( Authored Entry )
...for efficient gatherings, and by the 1990s, industry-specific conventions such as the hardware or...
358 Uptown, Amanda Seligman( Authored Entry )
...made Uptown the heart of the American film industry. Luxury apartment buildings and hotels appeared...
359 Washington Park, Wallace Best( Authored Entry )
...the Robert Taylor Homes (1962). The presence of industry in Washington Park has been negligible; nor...
360 Young Men's Christian Association, Paula R. Lupkin( Authored Entry )
...Americanization programs and worked with industry leaders like Sears, Roebuck to provide recreation...
361 Chicago Sound, John McAllister( Authored Entry )
...era Chicago, jazz, aided by the nascent recording industry, quickly grew from a regional and racial...
362 Clerical Workers, Lisa Michelle Fine( Authored Entry )
...diverse, even though individual firms or industries, until quite recently, have discriminated on the...
363 Douglas, Adrian Capehart( Authored Entry )
...families employed in the nearby meatpacking industry, railroad shops, and breweries constructed...
364 Feminist Movements, Maureen A. Flanagan( Authored Entry )
...in the arts, literature, science, and industry. The fairs showcased women's accomplishments, but...
365 Improvisational Theater, Tony Adler( Authored Entry )
...every level of the American entertainment industry—television to theater, cabaret to commercials to...
366 Kane County, Craig L. Pfannkuche( Authored Entry )
...1990s. Although the closing of Aurora's steel industries and locomotive shops and the withdrawal of...
367 Law, R. Ben Brown( Authored Entry )
...creation of the modern corporation and modern industry created new areas of legal concern, leading...
368 Logan Square, Elizabeth A. Patterson( Authored Entry )
...laid its tracks just west of the river. Industries soon followed. In 1863, Chicago annexed the...
369 Near South Side, Dennis McClendon( Authored Entry )
...shops and yards nearby and attracted related industries. The city limits were extended south to 31st...
370 Planning Chicago, Carl Abbott( Authored Entry )
...twentieth century have often been cities for industry rather than people. Chicago entrepreneurs in...
...District, and many others were subdivisions for industry. The thousands of industrial parks that dot...

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