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Hart, Schaffner & Marx, (
Business Dictionary
) ...companies, and other retailers; its headquarters remained in Chicago, where it employed about 1,000...
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Allstate Corp., (
Business Dictionary
) ...many of Sears' operations faltered, Allstate remained profitable. In 1995, Allstate finally spun off...
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Chicago Daily News Inc., (
Business Dictionary
) ...Lawson died in 1925, however, theDaily News remained an important local publication. By the end of...
...took over complete control of the paper. It remained Chicago's most popular newspaper until 1918,...
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Ekco Products Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...Ekco was based in suburban Franklin Park, and it remained a leading manufacturer of bakeware....
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Armour & Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...goods made from packing-plant waste. Armour remained one of the nation's largest companies at the...
...ceded control of its operations. But Armour remained a leading Chicago employer. During the worst...
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Dominick's Finer Foods Inc., (
Business Dictionary
) ...of the century, the Safeway-owned Dominick's remained a leading grocery chain in the Chicago area...
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Holabird & Root, (
Business Dictionary
) ...it still employed several dozen architects and remained one of the city's 20 largest architectural...
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Booz Allen & Hamilton Inc., (
Business Dictionary
) ...company, the firm moved to New York, where it remained during the 1980s; its headquarters later...
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Harris Trust & Savings Bank, (
Business Dictionary
) ...Harris (still a division of its Canadian parent) remained one of Chicago's largest banks, boasting $...
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Armour, Dole & Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...After the Civil War, Armour, Dole & Co. remained among the city's leading grain warehousers; their...
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Chicago Ship Building Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...ships on the Great Lakes. The company, which remained part of American Shipbuilding, continued to...
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Selz, Schwab & Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...makers of footwear in the United States. Selz remained a major footwear company throughout the...
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Kirkland & Ellis, (
Business Dictionary
) ...and McCormick's own Tribune Co. The firm remained one of the city's largest into the twenty-first...
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Southwest Airlines Inc., (
Business Dictionary
) ...industry floundered in the early 2000s, Southwest remained profitable, substantially increasing its...
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Fansteel Inc., (
Business Dictionary
) ...over 1,000 people in the Chicago area. It remained a medium-sized company that supplied specialty...
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Bally Manufacturing Corp., (
Business Dictionary
) ...an independent company a few years earlier, remained based in Chicago. At the end of the 1990s,...
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National Tea Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...during the Great Depression, but National Tea remained among the 10 largest grocery chains in the...
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Ryerson (Joseph T.) & Son, (
Business Dictionary
) ...arm. By the late 1960s, the Ryerson division remained a major distributor of steel products; it was...
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Swift & Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...in Chicago in 1953, but its corporate headquarters remained in the city. In 1973, by which time meat...
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Zenith Radio Corp., (
Business Dictionary
) ...around the Chicago area. Zenith's headquarters remained in Chicago at this time. The company still...
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