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Scots, June Skinner Sawyers(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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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Global Chicago, Michael P. Conzen(
Interpretive Digital Essay
) ...as the hub of western land routes and the industry-friendly water routes of the Great Lakes to the...
...by the 1890s. From the agricultural machinery industry (embodied by McCormick's reaper firm) of the...
...Great Lakes shipping network that diffused the industry from Pennsylvania to the Middle West and to...
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Manufacturing Climate, Janice L. Reiff(
Rich Map (Essay)
) ...the transformations that were taking place in industry, transportation, marketing, and urban...
...the rapid expansion taking place in Chicago industry, but they obscure other transformations taking...
...scale operations still did not dominate Chicago industry, they were beginning to change many sectors...
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Work Culture, Lynn Y. Weiner(
Authored Entry
) ...in the stockyards, ironworks, and steel industries. Chinese came in lesser numbers and looked...
...personal work culture of artisans faded as industry grew. By the end of the century, factories had...
...1880 over 75,000 Chicago workers labored in industries including meatpacking , clothing production,...
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Land Use, Richard D. Mariner(
Authored Entry
) ...canal and rail corridors where warehouses, industries, and housing for canal and railroad workers...
...north of downtown Chicago provided captains of industry and civic leaders with an elegant, verdant,...
...development, replacing their use for industry and disposal of waste. Similarly, techniques for...
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Medical Manufacturing and Pharmaceuticals, Beatrix Hoffman(
Authored Entry
) ...Chicago's preeminence in both medicine and industry has made the city a manufacturing center for...
...scales, and hospital clothing. Medline Industries, founded in Chicago in 1910 as a manufacturer of...
...attempts to dominate the medical products industry began in the 1950s, when it purchased other major...
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Trade Publications, Kathleen L. Endres(
Authored Entry
) ...press has never been dominated by a single industry, business, or association. The Chicago Daily...
...newspapers and newsletters because an industry, profession, or business needed information. Yet it...
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Coal Mining, Mark R. Wilson(
Authored Entry
) ...of these early miners were veterans of the industry who emigrated from Scotland and England during...
...steadily over the next few years. The local industry was hit by a deadly disaster in February 1883,...
...and smaller piece of Illinois' large coal industry. By 1892, Will County mines produced only 114,000...
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Great Migration, James Grossman(
Authored Entry
) ...European immigrants to the least skilled jobs in industry, and African Americans had even fewer...
...strikebreakers, notably in the meatpacking industry in 1904. When World War I halted immigration...
...in the 1940s and 1950s. The expansion of industry during World War II again provided the stimulus....
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Harvey, IL, Joseph C. Bigott(
Authored Entry
) ...contained 5,395 residents, a bank, and 11 industries. However, in 1895 residents voted by a slight...
...29,071, with many residents employed by local industries. In 1966, Dixie Square shopping mall opened...
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Joliet, IL, Robert E. Sterling(
Authored Entry
) ...labor force and its steel mill attracted other industries. Wire mills, coke plants, stove companies,...
...businesses in the Joliet area. Other Joliet industries have ranged from the production of greeting...
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