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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...
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| 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...
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| 3 | Kimball (W. W.) Co., (
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) ...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...
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| 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...
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| 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...
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| 6 | Searle (G. D.) & Co., (
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) ...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...
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| 7 | Morrison, Plummer & Co., (
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) ...drug wholesaling business from Richmond, Indiana, to Chicago. At the turn of the century, Morrison's...
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| 8 | Bankers Life and Casualty Co., (
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) ...organization based in Chicago. In 1992, Bankers Life was acquired by Conseco Inc. of Indiana....
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| 9 | Hall (W. F.) Printing Co., (
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) ...William Franklin Hall, an Indiana native who worked as a journeyman printer in Chicago during the...
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| 10 | National Malleable and Steel Castings Co., (
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) ...who operated similar companies in Ohio and Indiana. By the late 1880s, the company emp loyed nearly...
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| 11 | Pepper Construction Co., (
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) ...Pepper Construction to Texas, California, and Indiana, eventually placing all business operations...
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| 12 | Schoenhofen (Peter) Brewing Co., (
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) ...became part of Dewery's Ltd. of South Bend, Indiana, in 1951, and thereafter assumed the Dewery's...
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| 13 | Outboard Marine Corp., (
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) ...of the bankrupt Johnson Bros. Motor Co. , an Indiana company that had built a new marine plant in...
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| 14 | American Steel Foundries, (
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) ...large plants at East Chicago and Hammond, Indiana; the latter facility had about 2,600 workers...
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| 15 | Bethlehem Steel Corp., (
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) ...building a large new plant at Burns Harbor, Indiana. By the mid-1970s, about 7,000 people worked...
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| 16 | Borg-Warner Corp., (
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) ...auto parts makers—Warner Gear of Muncie, Indiana; Mechanics Universal Joint of Rockford, Illinois;...
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| 17 | Cudahy Packing Co., (
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) ...cleaning products plant at East Chicago, Indiana, built in 1909. In 1911, the company's headquarters...
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| 18 | Goldblatt Bros. Inc., (
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) ...as stores in nearby Joliet, and Hammond, Indiana. Goldblatt's entered the city's high-rent retail...
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| 19 | Republic Steel Corp., (
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) ...about 900 men at its plant in East Chicago, Indiana. In 1930, following more mergers, the company...
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| 20 | United States Gypsum Co., (
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) ...country, which included a plant in East Chicago, Indiana, mined gypsum (hydrous calcium sulfate) and...
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