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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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Scots, June Skinner Sawyers(
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) ...Fergus, considered the father of the printing industry in Chicago; detective Allan Pinkerton , whose...
...well represented in Chicago's meatpacking industry. The Union Stock Yard was built primarily by a...
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Burnham, IL, Larry A. McClellan(
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) ...investors were aware of the growing steel industries across the Calumet Region . The Hammond Lumber...
...needs were being spurred by the growing steel industries. The strong demand for workers' housing led...
...mostly housing for workers in regional industries, connects with the old center of town. In this...
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Chesterton, IN, Margaret D. Doyle(
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) ...Chicago in 1880 and became the town's main industry. A growing preference for pianos over organs...
...closure of the factory in 1920. Other small industries included a china factory and a glass factory....
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Clearing, Clinton E. Stockwell(
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) ...connected the freight car switching hub with 18 industries, and Clearing was annexed to the city....
...From those 18 industries in 1915, the Clearing Industrial District grew to more than 90 by 1928....
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Dolton, IL, Dave Bartlett(
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) ...intensified in the late 1840s. The earliest industries were a distilling company and a lumber...
...activity lead to the area's packing and canning industries. In 1885 Dolton's clay deposits began to...
...Calumet River proved to be a good site for industry. Dolton grew as a center for truck farming and...
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Montgomery, IL, Sherry Meyer(
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) ...responsible for much of its earliest growth and industry and ultimately its platting. Originally “...
...unable to compete. Population diminished, industry stagnated. Relief started in 1880, when the...
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Phoenix, IL, Larry A. McClellan(
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) ...By 1900 it boasted a population of 5,395 and industries employing 1,700. Many of Harvey's factories...
...influx of blacks from Chicago and the South. Industry in Harvey and the railroads , including the...
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Photography, Larry Viskochil(
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) ...founders of Chicago's commercial photography industry also produced outdoor views of their frontier...
...and the rise of the commercial photo finishing industry greatly increased photographic activity and...
...new technological innovations in the printing industry made photographic reproductions in books,...
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Innovation, Invention, and Chicago Business, Louis P. Cain(
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) ...with being the father of Chicago's meatpacking industry as well as of its shipping, warehouse, and...
...involved in such activities as soap production and selling hides to the leather industry and tails...
...to the paintbrush industry. They also filled the bottom of the refrigerator cars with such goods as...
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Public Health, Jennifer Koslow(
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) ...decisions would go uncontested. The meatpacking industry proved particularly resistant to public...
...health policies. From its inception, the industry dumped animal carcasses and chemicals into Lake...
...In attempting to clean up the meatpacking industry, Oscar Coleman De Wolf, the commissioner of...
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