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Publishing, Book, Connie Goddard(
Authored Entry
) ...consolidation and technological changes in the book industry nationwide meant that the metropolitan...
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| 402 |
Water, Louis P. Cain(
Authored Entry
) ...the effort. The IWC argued that the growth of industry, combined with continued population growth,...
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| 403 |
Infrastructure, Louis P. Cain(
Authored Entry
) ...rather than coal increasingly powered industry. The telephone and gas utilities date from this same...
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| 404 |
Mailing To the World, Sarah S. Marcus(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Gallery)
) ...the U.S. See also: Agricultural Machinery Industry ; Innovation, Invention, Chicago Business ;...
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| 405 |
Wrigley (Wm. Jr.) Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...$4.5 million in 1910, when “Spearmint” was the industry's leading brand. A new brand, “Double Mint,”...
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| 406 |
Allstate Corp., (
Business Dictionary
) ...Allstate continued to be a U.S. insurance industry leader. With nearly $100 billion in assets,...
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| 407 |
Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...Sheet & Tube had become a subsidiary of Lykes Industries, it still had about 10,000 employees in the...
...end of the 1970s, just as the American steel industry entered a severe slump, Lykes was purchased by...
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| 408 |
Capsonic Group LLC, (
Business Dictionary
) ...to create parts for use in the electronics industry. In 1968 he started Capsonic Inc. and began...
...computer, appliance, and telecommunication industries, reaping over $40 million in sales a year. The...
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| 409 |
Indiana Dunes, Sarah S. Marcus(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...Gary--one of the qualities that the steel industry had found so desirable--also made the lakeshore...
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| 410 |
Columbian Exposition Gallery, (
Interpretive Digital Essay (Gallery)
) ...Museum and now of the Museum of Science and Industry. To the west, between 59th and 60th Streets,...
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| 411 |
Lake Shore Drive, (
Interpretive Digital Essay (Gallery)
) ...what would soon be the Museum of Science and Industry is still under construction. Outer Lake Shore...
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| 412 |
Retail Geography, Max Grinnell(
Authored Entry
) ...community, particularly those in the real-estate industry, sought solutions from city leaders, but...
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| 413 |
Pullman Inc., Martha T. Briggs. and Cynthia H. Peters(
Business Dictionary
) ...and its remaining freight car plants were subsequently sold to Dallas-based Trinity Industries....
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| 414 |
Banking, Commercial, Larry E. Schweikart(
Authored Entry
) ...influential Chicago leaders in railroads , industry, and real estate. The appearance of the Marine...
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| 415 |
Roman Catholics, Steve Rosswurm(
Authored Entry
) ...most of the remaining good-paying jobs in industry fled. This three-decades-long capitalist assault...
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| 416 |
Poles, Dominic A. Pacyga(
Authored Entry
) ...mobility. Many suburbs were and are home to heavy industry and had long-established Polish American...
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| 417 |
Bell & Howell Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...made equipment used in the motion picture industry. It introduced an innovative all-metal camera in...
...1920s, helped to make 35-millimeter film the industry standard, and served as a leading supplier to...
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| 418 |
Fishermen, Ann Durkin Keating(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...until a 1996 Illinois statute ended that industry as well. Commercial Fishermen, Waukegan, 1910 ...
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| 419 |
First National Park in the Middle West, Sarah S. Marcus(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...of steel mills and picnic areas. The proximity of industry and park meant that the area would remain...
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| 420 |
Calumet Harbor, Page 2, Ann Durkin Keating(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...the 1920s, the Calumet Harbor was built up with industry and commercial venues. This picture, which...
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