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Meatpacking, Louise Carroll Wade(
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) ...of the twentieth century, the meatpacking industry was widely dispersed but still under government...
...center and the acknowledged headquarters of the industry. Europeans brought cattle and hogs to North...
...the century, Chicago meatpackers transformed the industry. Pork packers such as Philip Armour built...
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South Side, Dominic A. Pacyga(
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) ...late 1860s and 1870s also saw the movement of industry away from the Loop. In 1865 the Union Stock...
...behind an area increasingly devoted to industry, wholesaling , and the expanding vice district . The...
...cities. As the twentieth century dawned, and industry crept closer to the district, Prairie Avenue’s...
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Zion, IL, Wallace Best(
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) ...Department Store and the factory of Zion Lace Industries together employed as many as 3,000 workers....
...new leadership after Dowie's death in 1907, industry never flourished in Zion City. Commonwealth...
...and maintenance problems. Despite the lack of industry and low level of employment in Zion City, the...
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Maywood, IL, Jean Louise Guarino(
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) ...economic development has hinged on light industry, starting in 1884 with Chicago Scraper and...
...had become the American Can Company. Other industries subsequently attracted to the area located...
...service. In the 1970s several of Maywood's industries transferred out of the region, including the...
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Wholesaling, Mark R. Wilson(
Authored Entry
) ...of merchant middlemen has declined in many industries during the years since Chicago was founded, at...
...One of the most important firms in the drug industry was one headed by Robert Morrison and Jonathan...
...during this period was more prominent within its industry than the hardware-dealing firm of Hibbard,...
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Illinois Institute of Technology, Wilbur Applebaum(
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) ...organizations to serve various technical needs of industry and government. Chief among these are the...
...IIT has always enjoyed close relations with industry and the business community of the Chicago area,...
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Deerfield, IL, Thomas A. Auger(
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) ...based Baxter International, as well as the growth of the real-estate and service industries....
...village faced a setback in 1991 when the main industry in the area, Sara Lee, moved after 27 years...
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Greater Grand Crossing, Wallace Best(
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) ...for many years after the 1853 accident, but industry developed around it as it became required for...
...housing project. Though there had been some industry in the area since the mid-nineteenth century,...
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Occupational Safety and Health, Tom Hafen(
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) ...growth occurred in transportation and heavy industry. These two sectors were not only among the most...
...in 1911. When it became evident that American industry had lost the battle over industrial safety in...
...relative decline of U.S. employment in heavy industry, rates of industrial accidents and sickness...
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Forest View, IL, Ronald S. Vasile(
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) ...to more than 250, and the proliferation of industry led some to refer to it as the trucking capital...
...mile is residential; the 2-by-8-block residential area is a tiny oasis in the midst of industry....
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Calumet Region, Janice L. Reiff(
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) ...Calumet river system . By the 1880s, the heavy industry beginning to dominate the region also helped...
...the metropolitan area's jobs in primary metal industries, 72 percent in petroleum and coal products,...
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Redlining, D. Bradford Hunt(
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) ...change in both the banking and insurance industries. In the 1990s, prominent banks and insurance...
...practices existed in the banking and insurance industries well before the 1930s, the New Deal's Home...
...of progress in ending redlining in the insurance industry remains an ongoing debate. In 1968, the...
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Mount Prospect, IL, David MacLaren(
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) ...leaders continued to promote some light industry, they maintained Mount Prospect as a residential...
...Center (1962). The village also attracted new industry and light manufacturing with the addition of...
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Turn-of-the-Century Industrialization and International Markets, Sarah S. Marcus(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Gallery)
) ...were closed. See also: Agricultural Machinery Industry ; Innovation, Invention, Chicago Business ;...
...and production. Based upon the popularity of its industry-leading "Spearmint" brand, Wrigley Co....
...earners in the city worked in heavy industries, including iron and steel, garment manufacturing,...
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Civil War, Theodore J. Karamanski(
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) ...emerged as the logical center for the meatpacking , wheat distribution, and related industries....
...Heavy industry took root in Chicago during the war to provide Union forces with the rolling stock...
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East Side, Kristina M. Bas and David Bensman(
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) ...East Side was shaped by the entrance of heavy industry into the Calumet area in the 1870s. Prior to...
...influenced many firms to locate in the area. Industry flourished, and by the 1920s the East Side,...
...in 1942. The decline of the Chicago steel industry had profound effects on the East Side community....
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McKinley Park, David M. Solzman(
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) ...of the area, and during the Civil War industries located along the waterways and the railroad. The...
...were filled in to rectify the problem. If industries created pollution, they also created many good...
...passed, steel mills and brickyards closed and industries changed, replaced by new activities. The...
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New City, Erik Gellman(
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) ...worked for the stockyards or its auxiliary industries, these residents socialized in different...
...during the 1920s, when the stockyards and other industries employed over 40,000 workers. After World...
...the stockyards followed suit. Since this time, new industry has gradually replaced the cattle-based...
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Schooling for Work, Arthur Zilversmit(
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) ...as the nation was transformed by new kinds of industry. In Chicago, a deep and bitter conflict over...
...furnishing the well-trained soldiers that modern industry required. The new vocational education, as...
...made up of men with practical experience in industry and commerce, and funded by a special tax....
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Taxis, Liveries, and Limousines, Joshua M. Lupkin(
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) ...in 1922. Despite repeated calls to regulate the industry in the 1910s, by the early 1920s the taxi...
...century of strong union presence in the industry. During this period, controversy also swirled...
...labor costs and financial problems in the industry after World War II, drivers no longer belonged to...
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