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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...
371 Poetry, David Starkey and Bill Savage( Authored Entry )
...the shift in Chicago's economy away from heavy industry. The interaction between Chicago as a center...
372 Northwestern Terra Cotta Co., ( Business Dictionary )
...Chicago declined alongside the construction industry during Great Depression and never returned to...
...terra cotta trimmings used by the construction industry. By the early 1890s, when Northwestern Terra...
373 Arnold, Schwinn & Co., ( Business Dictionary )
...and partner Adolph Arnold (a Chicago meat industry veteran) founded a bicycle manufacturing company....
...They joined a competitive industry: by 1900, when the Chicago region made more than half of all the...
...had become one of the leading firms in the industry. Many of its bicycles were sold by Sears,...
374 Continental Illinois National Bank & Trust Co., ( Business Dictionary )
...large loans to companies in the oil and gas industries went bad, the bank experienced a sudden and...
375 Telephony, Richard R. John( Authored Entry )
...remembered today as the cradle of the telephone industry. As the home of Western Electric, a leading...
376 Chinese, Tracy Steffes( Authored Entry )
...dangerous jobs in agriculture, mining, small industries, and railroads in order to support families...
377 Commercial Buildings, Vincent L. Michael( Authored Entry )
...Certain areas catered to specialized industries, such as “Automobile Row” on South Michigan Avenue,...
378 DuPage County, Steph McGrath( Authored Entry )
...helped to sustain Chicago's population and industry and brought wealth and prosperity to DuPage....
379 Government, Suburban, Jon C. Teaford( Authored Entry )
...them. Certain pristine villages excluded industry, whereas others protected tax-rich manufacturing...
380 Graphic Design, Victor Margolin( Authored Entry )
...with the extraordinary growth of the printing industry. Among the early designers in the 1890s were...

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