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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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| 148 |
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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Who Wrote the Plan of Chicago?, Carl Smith(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Essay)
) ...Who Wrote the Plan of Chicago?...
...All of these are indications of a complex collaboration. The Electronic Encyclopedia of Chicago ©...
...2005 Chicago Historical Society. The Encyclopedia of Chicago © 2004 The Newberry Library. All Rights...
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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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| 153 |
Chicago, Rock Island, & Pacific Railroad Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...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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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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| 155 |
Gold Coast Aerial View, 1929, Photographer: Underwood & Underwood(
Historical Source
) ...Gold...
...Coast Aerial View, 1929...
Date Created: 1929,
Date Depicted: 1929
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| 156 |
Old Town Art Fair, 1954, Photographer: Louis F. Zimmermann(
Historical Source
) ...Old...
...Town Art Fair, 1954...
Date Created: 1954,
Date Depicted: 1954
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| 157 |
Old Farwell Hall, c.1880s, Photographer: Unknown(
Historical Source
) ...Old Farwell Hall, c.1880s...
...Old Farwell Hall, Madison Street between Clark and LaSalle, c. 1880s....
Date Created: c.1880s,
Date Depicted: c.1880s
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| 158 |
Lake View Town Hall, Photographer: Unknown(
Historical Source
) ...Lake View Town Hall...
...Lake View town hall, built in 1872 at the corner of Halsted and Addison....
Date Created: n.d.,
Date Depicted: n.d.
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Win Stracke and Ray Tate at Old Town School of Folk Music, c.1970s, Photographer: Chicago Daily News(
Historical Source
) ...Win Stracke and Ray Tate at Old...
...Town School of Folk Music, c.1970s...
...Photographer: Chicago Daily News...
Date Created: c.1970s,
Date Depicted: c.1970s
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| 160 |
Old Cook County Hospital, c.1900, Photographer: Unknown(
Historical Source
) ...Old Cook County Hospital, c.1900...
...Old Cook County Hospital, c.1900...
Date Created: c.1900,
Date Depicted: c. 1900
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