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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(
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) ...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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Chambers of Commerce, Jeffrey Charles(
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) ...it did have an Association of Commerce and Industry, formed in 1904. Not until 1992 did it take the...
...Commercial Club , the Association of Commerce and Industry played a key role in boosting Chicago and...
...of commerce or associations of commerce and industry. These local chambers' sponsorship of events...
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Crerar Library, John, Jane Aikin(
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) ...clientele from Chicago-area business and industry. Its equally outstanding collections of historical...
...an innovative fee-based research service for industry and government. In 1951 they decided to limit...
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Ecuadorians, Amalia Pallares(
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) ...mainly in factories, but also in service industries and eventually in retail. Ecuadorian businesses...
...networks of family and friends to secure jobs in the restaurant and hotel industry for men, and in...
...the housekeeping and garment industries for women. Ecuadorian organizations include the Ecuadorian...
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Waste Disposal, Christopher Thale(
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) ...garbage inspector for several years. Chicago's industries generated enormous quantities of waste....
...waterways, a practice tolerated because the industry was so important to the city's economy. “Bubbly...
...wastes. Tanneries, distilleries, and other industries dumped wastes into the North Branch of the...
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Real Estate, Pierre deVise(
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) ...all the different elements of the real-estate industry contributed to these changes, they helped to...
...Few industries have been so closely connected to the development of the Chicago metropolitan region...
...regulations, and interventions, the real-estate industry has exerted enormous influence on the...
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Dutch, Jonathan J. Keyes(
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) ...autonomy, especially in the Roseland settlement. Industries such as the Pullman Palace Car Company,...
...increasingly less important as the city and its industries expanded. Factory work proved attractive...
...as the railroads , steel plants, and other industries that moved to the Roseland area. Capitalizing...
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Michigan City, IN, Elizabeth A. Patterson(
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) ...Lakeshore in the 1960s fortified the tourism industry. By the end of the twentieth Century, downtown...
...became one of Indiana's largest lumber markets. Industry boomed. Michigan City's fortunes began to...
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Strikes, Richard Schneirov(
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) ...hour day that year, most of them on May 1. Industry was paralyzed, and the city “assumed a sabbath...
...to penetrate the domain of corporate-run industry came in 1894 when the American Railway Union, an...
...made clothing and agricultural equipment industries engaged in tumultuous strikes marked by race...
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McCook, IL, Ronald S. Vasile(
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) ...mill provided airplane “skins,” and other industries shifted to wartime production. By 1976 McCook...
...operate into the twentieth century, other industries began to play a role in McCook's development....
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Goose Island, Amanda Seligman(
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) ...Avenue. The waterfront sites drew noisome industries, including tanneries, breweries , and soap...
...the late twentieth century, Goose Island's industries declined. Rising land values in the Near North...
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