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| 1 | Chicago Times, (
Business Dictionary
) ...Chicago Times...
...helped Carter H. Harrison, a Democrat, to begin a long term of service as Chicago's mayor. After...
...1895, when the Times merged with another Chicago daily, the Herald, it disappeared as an independent...
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| 2 | Chicago Packing & Provision Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...Chicago Packing & Provision Co...
...city's foremost grain traders, opened a meatpacking plant in Chicago in 1858. By the mid-1870s, when...
...400,000 or more hogs per season, Hutchinson's Chicago Packing & Provision Co. was the leading meat...
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| 3 | Chicago Ship Building Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...Chicago Ship Building Co...
...The area's greatest shipyard, located in South Chicago, was founded in 1890 as a subsidiary of the...
...Shipbuilding Co. (also based in Cleveland), the Chicago Ship Building Co. employed 1,200 men and...
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| 4 | Chicago, Aurora & Elgin Railroad Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...Chicago, Aurora & Elgin Railroad Co...
...In 1906, the merger of several streetcar lines in Chicago's western suburbs created...
...the Aurora, Elgin & Chicago Railroad. By 1909, the line had four routes between the western...
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| 5 | Chicago Rapid Transit Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...Chicago Rapid Transit Co...
...bankruptcy. In 1947 it was taken over by the new Chicago Transit Authority (CTA), a public entity...
...of elevated railways was the descendant of the Chicago Elevated Railways Collateral Trust, formed in...
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| 6 | Chicago Motor Coach Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...Chicago Motor Coach Co...
...created between 1920 and 1922 through the merger of three motorbus carriers, Chicago Motor Bus Co. ,...
...the Chicago Stage Co. , and the Depot Motor Bus Lines. In 1922, when it was the second-largest urban...
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| 7 | Chicago Flexible Shaft Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...Chicago Flexible Shaft Co...
...plant. Meanwhile, it continued to expand outside of Chicago; by the end of the 1970s, as the leading...
...International Inc. of Pittsburgh, its Chicago-area factories were closed and the headquarters left...
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| 8 | Chicago Daily News Inc., (
Business Dictionary
) ...Chicago Daily News Inc...
...when its circulation was surpassed by the Chicago Tribune. Even after Lawson died in 1925, however,...
...purchased by Field Enterprises, owner of the Chicago Sun-Times. The Daily News ceased to exist in...
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| 9 | Chicago Bridge & Iron Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...Chicago Bridge & Iron Co...
...Founded in 1889 by Horace Horton, Chicago Bridge & Iron Co. was created by the merger of several...
...manufactured parts for iron bridges. Its two Chicago-area plants were located in Washington Heights,...
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| 10 | Chicago Surface Lines, (
Business Dictionary
) ...Chicago Surface Lines...
...and 1947, when it operated more than 3,500 streetcars and 400 motor buses, Chicago Surface Lines was...
...absorbed by the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA), the city's public mass transit enterprise....
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| 11 | Chicago & North Western Railway Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...Chicago & North Western Railway Co...
...employees nationwide. In 1968, it absorbed the Chicago Great Western, a smaller competitor. That...
...off and sold to its employees, becoming the Chicago & North Western Transportation Co. In 1986, when...
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| 12 | Chicago Great Western Railway Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...Chicago Great Western Railway Co...
...1967, federal regulators approved a merger with a longtime competitor, the Chicago & North Western....
...Forest Park in 1887; it soon became the Chicago, St. Paul & Kansas City. By the early 1890s, when...
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| 13 | Chicago, Burlington, & Quincy Railroad Co., H. Roger Grant.(
Business Dictionary
) ...Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Co...
...of road. Operating out of Union Station in Chicago, it became known as a technological pioneer in...
...conditioned, double-deck commuter cars out of Chicago. By the beginning of the 1960s, the road was...
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| 14 | Chicago, North Shore & Milwaukee Railway Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...Chicago, North Shore & Milwaukee Railway Co...
...when a short street railway between North Chicago and Waukegan was finished in 1892. In 1908, the...
...Samuel Insull, it obtained access to downtown Chicago. The road's “Electroliner” train, introduced...
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| 15 | Chicago, South Shore & South Bend Railroad Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...Chicago, South Shore & South Bend Railroad Co...
...in 1901; it started running in and out of Chicago in 1926, just after it was acquired by Samuel...
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| 16 | Yellow Cab Co. (of Chicago), (
Business Dictionary
) ...Yellow Cab Co. (of Chicago)...
...companies across the nation bearing the Yellow Cab name. In Chicago, the Yellow Cab Management Co....
...operated a fleet of 2,000 taxis—the most in Chicago—leasing the cabs to drivers belonging to the...
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| 17 | North Chicago Rolling Mill Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...North Chicago Rolling Mill Co...
...The first large iron and steel plant in the Chicago area,...
...the North Chicago Rolling Mill, was founded in 1857 by Eber B. Ward, an owner of iron mines in the...
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| 18 | Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railway Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railway Co...
...In 1874, one year after it completed a new line between Milwaukee and Chicago, the railroad became...
...known as the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Co. Between 1874 and 1887, the amount of track...
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| 19 | Chicago, Rock Island, & Pacific Railroad Co., (
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) ...Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad Co...
...dissolved in 1984 were transferred to the Chicago Pacific Corp. , a holding company since purchased...
...this company completed a rail link between Chicago and Rock Island, Illinois; in 1856, it became the...
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| 20 | First National Bank of Chicago, (
Business Dictionary
) ...First National Bank of Chicago...
...in the United States. Three years later, First Chicago NBD merged with the Banc One Corp. of Ohio to...
...bank. At the beginning of the century, the Chicago-based Bank One employed about 14,000 Chicago-area...
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