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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...
381 Great Depression, Tracey Deutsch( Authored Entry )
...race, ethnicity, and even across different industries. By 1940 one-third of the workers in Chicago's...
382 Industrial Art and Design, Victoria Kasuba Matranga( Authored Entry )
...These schools have generated vital links to industry for faculty and students. During World War II,...
383 Planning, City and Regional, Lawrence Christmas( Authored Entry )
...in suburban areas and introduced chapters on industry, land use , and water supply and sanitation....
384 Saloons, Perry R. Duis( Authored Entry )
...1880s a growing overcapacity in the brewery industry began to force change. Overestimates of future...
385 Foodways, Tracy N. Poe( Authored Entry )
...their immediate communities, some growing into food industry giants such as Kraft Foods, Sara Lee...
386 Gas and Electricity, Harold L. Platt( Authored Entry )
...In addition to the rapid growth of the electric industry, the gas business underwent a revolution of...
387 Austrians, Philip V. Bohlman( Authored Entry )
...stockyards, for railroads , or in related industries, such as in foundries and construction . The...
388 Politics and the Press, Jon Bekken( Authored Entry )
...became entrenched only in the 1960s with industry consolidation and the replacement of individual...
389 Donnelley (R. R.) & Sons Co., ( Business Dictionary )
...number one company in the commercial printing industry, R. R. Donnelley grossed about $150 million...
...and was printing paper manuals for computer industry companies such as Microsoft, annual sales stood...
390 Walgreen Co., ( Business Dictionary )
...that would become the rule throughout the industry) opened on theSouth Side in 1952. Annual sales...

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