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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
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...
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...
741 Schlesinger & Mayer, ( Business Dictionary )
...immediately, attaching its name to the ornate building that would become an architectural landmark...
742 Greyhound Corp., ( Business Dictionary )
...were manufactured in Muskegon, Michigan. In 1930, the company changed its name to Greyhound Corp....
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...
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...
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...
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...
748 Ceco Corp., ( Business Dictionary )
...the com- mercial construction industry to create buildings out of concrete. By the end of the 1920s,...
749 Northern Trust Co., ( Business Dictionary )
...a branch in London and expanding to a new building at Wacker and Adams, the bank employed about...
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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