| 721 |
Elgin National Watch Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...at a new plant in Elgin, west of Chicago. By 1870, the plant, which over the previous year had...
|
| 722 |
Kellogg Switchboard & Supply Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...In 1870, Milo G. Kellogg moved to Chicago from New York State and began working as a design engineer...
|
| 723 |
Butler Bros., (
Business Dictionary
) ...of its operations were based in Chicago after 1930, when the purchasing department moved from New...
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| 724 |
Crain Communications Inc., (
Business Dictionary
) ...Class (now BtoB) and Hospital Management. In 1930, when the company's name became Advertising...
|
| 725 |
Wieboldt Stores Inc., (
Business Dictionary
) ...added new locations over the next few years. By 1930, Wieboldt had five stores with a combined $21...
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| 726 |
Palmer, Fuller & Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...This company, a major producer of wooden building materials during the late nineteenth century, was...
|
| 727 |
Ecosystem Evolution, Eric C. Grimm(
Authored Entry
) ...a series of minor advances and retreats, building the Lake Border moraines just north of Chicago...
|
| 728 |
Turn-of-the-Century Industrialization and International Markets, Sarah S. Marcus(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Gallery)
) ...the Loop, and would be moved to the Wrigley Building on North Michigan Avenue after construction was...
|
| 729 |
Literary Images of Chicago, Carlo Rotella(
Authored Entry
) ...and early 1960s: “The city was tearing down buildings for urban renewal and tearing up streets for a...
|
| 730 |
Chicago River as Harbor, Ann Durkin Keating(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...the twentieth century. The North Pier Terminal Building at 435 East Illinois was built between 1905...
|
| 731 |
Grain Trade, Page 1, Ann Durkin Keating(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...to lessen his risk in wheat speculation by building his own elevator on Goose Island, alongside the...
|
| 732 |
My Chicago River, 1924, Author: Caroline Iverson Sullivan(
Historical Source
) ...c. 1870...
Date Created: 1924,
Date Depicted: c. 1870
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| 733 |
Chicago Studied: Social Scientists and Their City, Andrew Abbott and Jolyon Wurr(
Authored Entry
) ...fact, and even that would be remodeled in the building of Lake Shore Drive, Grant Park , and the...
|
| 734 |
Chicago, Burlington, & Quincy Railroad Co., H. Roger Grant.(
Business Dictionary
) ...Chicago transportation line and local employer. In 1870, its car works in Aurora employed more than...
|
| 735 |
Kirk (James S.) & Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...set up a large new plant on North Water Street. In 1870, this facility employed about 30 men and 20...
|
| 736 |
Zenith Radio Corp., (
Business Dictionary
) ...from about $5 million in 1928 to $11 million in 1930. By the mid-1930s, about 450 people worked at...
|
| 737 |
Work Culture, Lynn Y. Weiner(
Authored Entry
) ...the local economy experienced an unprecedented building boom, which led to work for timbermen,...
|
| 738 |
Field (Marshall) & Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...Streets and its massive seven-story wholesale building at Quincy and Adams. The wholesale division,...
...the company built the Merchandise Mart, a building in downtown Chicago that became the world's...
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| 739 |
Suburbs and Cities as Dual Metropolis, Michael H. Ebner(
Authored Entry
) ...this complex included 28 identical high-rise buildings until 2000, each 16 stories, with a total of...
|
| 740 |
Perkins & Will, (
Business Dictionary
) ...was nationally prominent, designing large office buildings and a variety of other structures. By the...
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