| 701 |
Accounting, Paul J. Miranti, Jr.(
Authored Entry
) ...markets, reciprocity facilitated the building of branch offices and interstate practices. A unique...
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| 702 |
Croatians, Amanda Seligman(
Authored Entry
) ...Crane Brothers Manufacturing Company, in the building trades , and on the surface rails. Some left...
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| 703 |
Rush Street Bridge, Page 2, Ann Durkin Keating(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...last vestiges of nineteenth century bridge-building). See also: Planning Chicago ; Near North Side...
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| 704 |
Material Service Corp., Andrew W. Cohen.(
Business Dictionary
) ...become the leading distributor and producer of building materials in the Midwest; it employed more...
...of their prized possessions, the Empire State Building in New York City. The Crown family was forced...
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| 705 |
Blues, Adam Green(
Authored Entry
) ...American community, a renaissance has been building since the late 1960s, when blues found a new...
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| 706 |
Police, Christopher Thale(
Authored Entry
) ...until police began radio broadcasting in 1930. These changes, emphasizing the “war on crime,” were...
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| 707 |
Fiction, Bill Savage(
Authored Entry
) ...treatments of Chicago: the challenge of building an individual identity in a vast, alienating city;...
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| 708 |
Philanthropy, Peter Frumkin(
Authored Entry
) ...1 The early philanthropic emphasis was on building major cultural and educational institutions,...
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| 709 |
Farwell (John V.) & Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...scale. Annual sales reached nearly $10 million by 1870 and stood at about $20 million in 1883, when...
...into a new eight-story, 400,000-square-foot building at Monroe and Market Streets. By the end of the...
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| 710 |
Entertaining Chicagoans, Lewis A. Erenberg(
Authored Entry
) ...appeared at Crosby's Opera House in 1869 and 1870, they created a sensation; even middle-class women...
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| 711 |
Demography, Walter Nugent(
Authored Entry
) ...of the total in 1910, rose to 7 percent by 1930. The Depression-ridden 1930s brought it up only...
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| 712 |
Commuting, Michael P. Conzen(
Authored Entry
) ...since then. Chicago has even pioneered the building of rapid transit lines along expressway median...
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| 713 |
American Airlines Inc., (
Business Dictionary
) ...become a leading employer in the region. In 1930 several small companies merged to form the American...
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| 714 |
Sidley & Austin, (
Business Dictionary
) ...nine lawyers and their office staff. In 1920, the firm's offices moved from the Tacoma Building to...
...the Roanoke Building, a newer skyscraper. By 1941, when the firm was known as Sidley, McPherson,...
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| 715 |
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, (
Business Dictionary
) ...people around the country. During the 1960s and 1970s, it designed many large buildings in Chicago,...
...including the Brunswick Building, the John Hancock Center, the Sears Tower, the main libraries for...
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| 716 |
Section between Robey Street (Damen) and Summit, Ann Durkin Keating(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...through layers of soil. In contrast to the building of the Illinois and Michigan Canal in the 1840s...
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| 717 |
Dam at Lockport, Ann Durkin Keating(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...the main channel, the project also included building 13 bridges, relocating the DesPlaines River and...
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| 718 |
Fairbank (N. K.) & Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...meatpacking industry, the company expanded. By 1870, its new plant at 19th and Blackwell Streets...
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| 719 |
Section between Willow Springs and Lockport, Ann Durkin Keating(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...See also: Quarrying, Stone Cutting, and Brickmaking Building the Retaining Wall, 18 September 1894...
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| 720 |
Modern Kitchen, Bathroom, and Laundry Room, Page 1, Ann Durkin Keating(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...themselves were generally installed when the building was constructed. See also: Housing Types ;...
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