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1 Northern Indiana Public Service Co., ( Business Dictionary )
...Northern Indiana Public Service Co...
...electricity to 400,000 customers in Northern Indiana; it also had about 700,000 gas customers. After...
...the company operated out of Merrillville, Indiana, and became known as NiSource Inc. , with more...
2 Standard Oil Co. (Indiana), ( Business Dictionary )
...Standard Oil Co. (Indiana)...
...John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil Co. established an Indiana-based subsidiary. The next year, the...
...oil at an enormous new refinery at Whiting, Indiana, southeast of Chicago. By the mid-1890s, the...
3 Kimball (W. W.) Co., ( Business Dictionary )
...Kimball was purchased by the Jasper Corp. of Jasper, Indiana, a maker of television cabinets; the...
...piano plant moved to West Baden, Indiana. In 1974 the name of Jasper Corp. became Kimball...
4 Chicago, South Shore & South Bend Railroad Co., ( Business Dictionary )
...This commuter line began in Northern Indiana in 1901; it started running in and out of Chicago in...
...Ohio Railroad; in the 1970s, the state of Indiana prevented the line from closing. At the end of the...
5 Hammond (George H.) Co., ( Business Dictionary )
...the early 1870s, he built a new plant in Northern Indiana along the tracks of the Michigan Central...
...company's large packing house in Hammond, Indiana—the town had taken the name of its most powerful...
6 Searle (G. D.) & Co., ( Business Dictionary )
...Gideon D. Searle, a Civil War veteran, and Indiana drug store owner Frank Hereth, who had formerly...
...worked as chief chemist of Eli Lilly & Co. , the Indiana pharmaceutical company. At the beginning of...
7 Morrison, Plummer & Co., ( Business Dictionary )
...drug wholesaling business from Richmond, Indiana, to Chicago. At the turn of the century, Morrison's...
8 Bankers Life and Casualty Co., ( Business Dictionary )
...organization based in Chicago. In 1992, Bankers Life was acquired by Conseco Inc. of Indiana....
9 Hall (W. F.) Printing Co., ( Business Dictionary )
...William Franklin Hall, an Indiana native who worked as a journeyman printer in Chicago during the...
10 National Malleable and Steel Castings Co., ( Business Dictionary )
...who operated similar companies in Ohio and Indiana. By the late 1880s, the company emp loyed nearly...
11 Pepper Construction Co., ( Business Dictionary )
...Pepper Construction to Texas, California, and Indiana, eventually placing all business operations...
12 Schoenhofen (Peter) Brewing Co., ( Business Dictionary )
...became part of Dewery's Ltd. of South Bend, Indiana, in 1951, and thereafter assumed the Dewery's...
13 Outboard Marine Corp., ( Business Dictionary )
...of the bankrupt Johnson Bros. Motor Co. , an Indiana company that had built a new marine plant in...
14 American Steel Foundries, ( Business Dictionary )
...large plants at East Chicago and Hammond, Indiana; the latter facility had about 2,600 workers...
15 Bethlehem Steel Corp., ( Business Dictionary )
...building a large new plant at Burns Harbor, Indiana. By the mid-1970s, about 7,000 people worked...
16 Borg-Warner Corp., ( Business Dictionary )
...auto parts makers—Warner Gear of Muncie, Indiana; Mechanics Universal Joint of Rockford, Illinois;...
17 Cudahy Packing Co., ( Business Dictionary )
...cleaning products plant at East Chicago, Indiana, built in 1909. In 1911, the company's headquarters...
18 Goldblatt Bros. Inc., ( Business Dictionary )
...as stores in nearby Joliet, and Hammond, Indiana. Goldblatt's entered the city's high-rent retail...
19 Republic Steel Corp., ( Business Dictionary )
...about 900 men at its plant in East Chicago, Indiana. In 1930, following more mergers, the company...
20 United States Gypsum Co., ( Business Dictionary )
...country, which included a plant in East Chicago, Indiana, mined gypsum (hydrous calcium sulfate) and...

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