| 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...
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| 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...
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| 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...
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| 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...
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| 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...
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| 737 |
Work Culture, Lynn Y. Weiner(
Authored Entry
) ...the local economy experienced an unprecedented building boom, which led to work for timbermen,...
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| 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...
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| 740 |
Perkins & Will, (
Business Dictionary
) ...was nationally prominent, designing large office buildings and a variety of other structures. By the...
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| 741 |
Schlesinger & Mayer, (
Business Dictionary
) ...immediately, attaching its name to the ornate building that would become an architectural landmark...
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| 742 |
Greyhound Corp., (
Business Dictionary
) ...were manufactured in Muskegon, Michigan. In 1930, the company changed its name to Greyhound Corp....
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| 743 |
Illinois Bell Telephone Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...from 34,000 in 1900 to roughly one million by 1930. By the early 1920s, Chicago Telephone employed...
|
| 744 |
Republic Steel Corp., (
Business Dictionary
) ...men at its plant in East Chicago, Indiana. In 1930, following more mergers, the company changed its...
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| 745 |
Locational Stability: Saint Aloysius Parish, Chicago in 1951, (
Map
) ...great social change. The accumulation of buildings over time testifies to the precinct's relative...
...the accumulation of activities and requisite buildings over time. Covering all or parts of four city...
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| 746 |
Western Electric Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...expanded during the 1870s from 20 people in 1870 to a workforce of 105 men and 25 women by 1880. In...
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| 747 |
Booz Allen & Hamilton Inc., (
Business Dictionary
) ...year, the firm moved into offices in the Field Building. In 1943, when the firm's name became Booz...
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| 748 |
Ceco Corp., (
Business Dictionary
) ...the com- mercial construction industry to create buildings out of concrete. By the end of the 1920s,...
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| 749 |
Northern Trust Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...a branch in London and expanding to a new building at Wacker and Adams, the bank employed about...
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| 750 |
Evans Food Products, (
Business Dictionary
) ...been renting a small office in the State Street building that Olin owned. Olin quickly patented his...
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