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Chicago's Railroad Pattern in 1950, (
Map
) ...area built to exchange freight between the trunk railroads and to service metropolitan industry....
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| 462 |
People and the Port, Theodore Karamanski(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Essay)
) ...1961 and cheaper real estate spurred major industries such as grain storage and steel production to...
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| 463 |
Bally Manufacturing Corp., (
Business Dictionary
) ...Bally found success in the new video game industry. Bally's video arcades and electronic games,...
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| 464 |
Kellogg Switchboard & Supply Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...would revolutionize the telecommunications industry. Kellogg Switchboard & Supply soon threatened...
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| 465 |
Sanitation in Chicago, Louis Cain(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Essay)
) ...the South Branch where much of the city's industry was located. Simultaneously, the city discovered...
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| 466 |
Automatic Electric Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...Like Western Electric, another industry-leading telephone equipment manufacturer located in the...
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| 467 |
American Hospital Supply Corp., (
Business Dictionary
) ...by Foster G. McGaw. It came to dominate its industry in the 1930s and '40s by changing the way...
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| 468 |
Bethlehem Steel Corp., (
Business Dictionary
) ...total workforce. But as the American steel industry declined and Bethlehem cut back, the Burns...
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| 469 |
Chicago Bridge & Iron Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...In 1979, the company became known as CBI Industries; five years later, it acquired Liquid Carbonic,...
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| 470 |
Curtiss Candy Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...among the top 10 firms in the U.S. candy industry. Control of the company left the Chicago area in...
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| 471 |
Florsheim Shoe Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...War II as one of the top 10 firms in the industry, with nearly $18 million in annual sales. Control...
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| 472 |
Goldblatt Bros. Inc., (
Business Dictionary
) ...the chain was purchased in 1985 by JG Industries Inc. The flagship State Street store was purchased...
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| 473 |
Illinois Tool Works Inc., (
Business Dictionary
) ...and several veterans of the tool-and-die industry from Rockford, Illinois, started a small company...
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| 474 |
Tellabs Inc., (
Business Dictionary
) ...half of those in Chicago. Tellabs followed its industry downward in the early 2000s, dropping two-...
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| 475 |
Waste Management Inc., (
Business Dictionary
) ...the field for new, larger companies in the industry. One of these companies was Waste Management, a...
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| 476 |
Armour & Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...Yard stood at the center of the meatpacking industry, Armour became a national operation and one of...
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| 477 |
Kraft Inc., (
Business Dictionary
) ...in the Chicago area. Kraft merged with Dart Industries in 1980, creating Dart & Kraft Inc. ; the two...
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| 478 |
Quaker Oats Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...the chemical furfural, which was soon used by industry to manufacture nylon and synthetic rubber....
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| 479 |
Seipp (Conrad) Brewing Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...in 1919 dealt a devastating blow to the beer industry as a whole. The company limped along through...
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| 480 |
Swift & Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...East. He quickly revolutionized the meat industry by using newly developed refrigerated railcars to...
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