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Business of Chicago, Peter A. Coclanis(
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) ...and a leading producer of iron and steel, industries that would grow dramatically in the years to...
...ground in relative terms to higher-order industries based on metal fabrication, particularly the...
...two areas: Chicago was America's center of heavy industry, New York, the center of light industry....
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Chemicals, Mark R. Wilson(
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) ...a leading producer of phosphate fertilizers; CF Industries, a maker of nitrogenous fertilizers; the...
...sodium carbonate) and insecticides; and CBI Industries (a descendant of the Chicago Bridge & Iron...
...Although the chemical industry has never represented one of the leading economic sectors in Chicago,...
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Mail Order, Mark R. Wilson(
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) ...or supplemented with electronic versions, the city continued to be a leading hub in the industry....
...were the leaders of the early mail-order industry and became giant enterprises through catalog sales...
...issued giant catalogs, the city's mail-order industry was no longer the precocious adolescent it had...
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Liquor Distribution, Sudhir Venkatesh(
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) ...for liquor manufacturing and retailing. The industry formed in close conjunction with Chicago's...
...organized efforts to restrict liquor spurred industry cooperation. In the early 1870s, the “Liberty...
...Liquor Dealers Protective Association, the industry's first statewide lobby, was organized. Local...
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Breweries, Harold L. Platt(
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) ...of Prohibition in 1933, the city's brewing industry did not recover in the face of competition from...
...nation's largest center of the malt liquor industry. In addition to its looming economic importance,...
...bad. The virtually complete domination of the industry in Chicago by German immigrants and their...
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Waukegan, IL, Wallace Best(
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) ...miles south of Milwaukee, can be attributed to industry, Lake Michigan, and the railroads . Toward...
...century, Waukegan became a thriving center of industry with enterprises that included ship and wagon...
...The most successful of these early Waukegan industries was the brewing of malt liquors. By the late...
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Mobile Homes, Anna Holian(
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) ...Chicago was the center of Illinois' mobile home industry. Reflecting the broad manufacturing base of...
...and machinery, the local mobile home industry included two of the largest early producers, Glider...
...Indian Trailer Corporation. Still, the local industry did not survive into the 1960s. The high cost...
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North Chicago, IL, Wallace Best(
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) ...city revenue in the form of license fees. Industry expanded rapidly in North Chicago. In 1892...
...in Worcester, Massachusetts, became the first industry to locate in North Chicago. The Illinois...
...two other major late-nineteenth-century industries to locate in North Chicago. The Chicago Hardware...
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Metropolitan Growth, Ann Durkin Keating(
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) ...Chicago , and Hammond . Agricultural processing industries also located near the rails: in Roselle,...
...established a factory in Villa Park . Heavy industries also located along the railroad lines....
...raw materials and ship finished products. These industries drew new residents into and around the...
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Savings and Loans, Jeffrey A. Brune(
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) ...to change their business practices and join industry organizations met with mixed success. Many of...
...the government took a much stronger role in the industry, both through regulation and by insuring...
...administrations substantially deregulated the industry. To bolster their business, many associations...
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Bellwood, IL, Patricia Krone Rose(
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) ...in tax dollars. However, a number of smaller industries and commercial enterprises brought some new...
...residents in 1930. After World War II , large industries, several of which became major employers in...
...manufacturers remain, but the loss of other large industries has caused a decline in employment and...
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Antiunionism, David Moberg(
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) ...influence over the city's workforce as emerging industries resisted unionization and new, nonunion...
...firms undercut union dominance in previously well-organized industries such as...
...the hotel industry....
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Sporting Goods Manufacturing, Timothy E. Sullivan(
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) ...encouraged mass production, resulting in falling prices in this industry as in others....
...The emergence of the sporting goods industry is closely linked with the growth of organized sport...
...based manufacturer shaped and redefined the industry with its aggressive marketing strategy. Chicago...
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Hammond, IN, Joseph C. Bigott(
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) ...opera house. He also created a variety of small industries to diversify the economy. When the city...
...The city faced a crisis. To attract new industries, local officials promised to protect capital from...
...The promise allowed Hammond to attract new industries. The most significant came in 1906 with the...
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Industrial Pollution, Andrew Hurley(
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) ...as the enforcement of federal regulations to reduce industry's contribution to air, land, and water...
...pollution after 1980. Departing industries, however, often left their host communities to contend...
...the effect of which was to push the offending industries beyond the city limits into new industrial...
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Iron- and Steelworkers, Jonathan Rees(
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) ...African American employment in the Chicago steel industry increased sharply after World War II , but...
...steelworkers played an important role in the industry's two most important strikes of the early...
...nationwide steel strike in 1919. The industry's use of African Americans as strikebreakers during...
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Subdivisions, Carolyn Loeb(
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) ...construction, and the emergence of high-tech industries have converted some of Chicago's far-flung...
...Distance from the center, proximity to industry, the provision of utility connections and other...
...with new houses, apartment buildings, and industries, urbanizing the inner suburbs through the...
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Geneva, IL, Sherry Meyer(
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) ...At the close of the twentieth century, industries included industrial electronics, railway supplies,...
...emerged primarily as a white-collar bedroom community, industry has played a significant role in its...
...economy. Early industries included a creamery; glucose and reaper manufactories; Bennett Bros. “...
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Roseland, Janice L. Reiff(
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) ...diverse retail and residential community surrounded by a growing number of large industries. The...
...hiring policies of Pullman and other industries shaped Roseland's population and politics. The 1894...
...Production at Pullman and other local industries slowed. As jobs disappeared, workers followed their...
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Italians, Rudolph J. Vecoli(
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) ...employment in the city's public works and industries, women were sent for and families established....
...the sweatshops and factories of the garment industry. Strongly attached to their places of origin (...
...of the labor force in the clothing and garment industry and helped found the Amalgamated Clothing...
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