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Global Capitalism and Chicago Real Estate, Ann Durkin Keating and Sarah S. Marcus(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Gallery)
) ...Global Capitalism and Chicago Real Estate...
...showing proposed lots) in 1830. He laid out the town with straight streets uniformly 66 feet wide (...
...of lots in Chicago. He is unimpressed by the town, and the price of $155 per square foot for water...
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Built Environment of the Chicago Region, Robert Bruegmann(
Authored Entry
) ...Built Environment of the Chicago Region...
...ranging from the slums and tenement areas close to the Loop to the mansions of the Gold...
...Coast , relocated in the late nineteenth century from just south of the business district to north...
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Using the Chicago River, David Solzman(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Essay)
) ...Using the Chicago River...
...Waterway Industrial Sites: A Chicago Case Study. 1966. The Electronic Encyclopedia of Chicago ©...
...2005 Chicago Historical Society. The Encyclopedia of Chicago © 2004 The Newberry Library. All Rights...
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Sanitation in Chicago, Louis Cain(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Essay)
) ...Sanitation in Chicago...
...cost less to dig a new channel than to enlarge the old one once more. In 1889 voters approved the...
...Strategy for a Lakefront Metropolis: The Case of Chicago. 1978. Cain, Louis P. "The Search for an...
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The Chicago Region and Its Global Models, Sarah S. Marcus(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Gallery)
) ...The Chicago Region and Its Global Models...
...Unknown Source: Newberry Library The company town of Pullman, founded by George M. Pullman of the...
...Visitors sought to see for themselves the town that was the subject of debate regarding capitalism,...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Chicago Studied: Social Scientists and Their City, Andrew Abbott and Jolyon Wurr(
Authored Entry
) ...Chicago Studied: Social Scientists and Their City...
...to severing the intellectual tentacles of Chicago studies suggests that this grip is not so easily...
...dislodged. Several of the classic works on Chicago—notably the books of Thomas and Znaniecki, Cayton...
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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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Chicago & North Western Railway Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...Chicago & North Western Railway Co...
...railroad in 1995, when it was bought by another old railroad company, the Union Pacific Corp. See...
...employees nationwide. In 1968, it absorbed the Chicago Great Western, a smaller competitor. That...
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Chicago, Burlington, & Quincy Railroad Co., H. Roger Grant.(
Business Dictionary
) ...Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Co...
...the Burlington and the other lines in the old Hill empire finally merged, creating the Burlington...
...of road. Operating out of Union Station in Chicago, it became known as a technological pioneer in...
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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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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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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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North Chicago Rolling Mill Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...North Chicago Rolling Mill Co...
...closed permanently in 1992, the South Works of the old North Chicago Rolling Mill Co. served as one...
...The first large iron and steel plant in the Chicago area, the North Chicago Rolling Mill, was...
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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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