| 1631 |
Illinois Tool Works Inc., (
Business Dictionary
) ...Nichols, Illinois Tool doubled in size by buying other companies, including Signode, another old...
...Chicago-based fastener company. At...
...of the 1990s, Illinois Tool bought Premark, a Chicago-area company that made kitchen appliances and...
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| 1632 |
The Press and Labor in the 1880s, Janice L. Reiff(
Rich Map (Essay)
) ...of urban community best exemplified by the Chicago Daily News , which, by the 1890s, had become the...
...both a labor and a socialist press continued in Chicago, the balance between its readership and that...
...Monthly Magazine , essayist A. L. White described Chicago journalism in 1888 as being like the city...
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| 1633 |
Crestwood, IL, Larry A. McClellan(
Authored Entry
) ...scattered farms and the beginnings of small market towns as railroad stops were established. In the...
...to work in the city. Typical of other suburban towns, Crestwood saw the growth of a rich variety of...
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| 1634 |
Panamanians, Stephen R. Porter(
Authored Entry
) ...climates of the American South, preferring its accessibility to their Chicago families over Panama....
...Chicago's first Panamanians arrived shortly after World War II as brides of American servicemen...
...of Afro-Panamanians settled mostly on Chicago's South Side in the 1970s. While many Panamanians from...
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| 1635 |
Bungalows, Joseph C. Bigott(
Authored Entry
) ...than 10 years old, many of them bungalows, ranging in cost from about $2,500 to $10,000. A form of...
...houses built throughout the United States. In Chicago, a few architects had begun to design and...
...and dining room. By 1930, one-fourth of all residential structures in metropolitan Chicago were less...
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| 1636 |
Elmwood Park, IL, Tina Reithmaier(
Authored Entry
) ...tracks ran diagonally across the township along Old Army Trail or Grand Avenue, with a train station...
...eastern section of Leyden Township between Chicago and the Des Plaines River . Native Americans made...
...area, which was then known as Orison. The Chicago & Pacific Railroad laid tracks in Leyden Township...
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| 1637 |
Nation of Islam, The, Aminah McCloud(
Authored Entry
) ...the organization toward Muslim orthodoxy, the old Nation splintered. Louis Farrakhan began reviving...
...headquarters to Temple No. 2 on the South Side of Chicago in the early 1930s. Elijah Muhammad and...
...founded the newspaper Mr. Muhammad Speaks in Chicago, which in a very short time became one of the...
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| 1638 |
Morton Grove, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
Authored Entry
) ...a single-track line, setting up a flag stop in town. The approximately one hundred residents relied...
...years later land along the North Branch of the Chicago River and the Skokie marshes was designated...
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| 1639 |
Women in the Garment Industries, (
Authored Entry
) ...machines are steam powered and most of them are old and on their last legs. Often when you have to...
...War, the garment industry grew in downtown Chicago. Immigrant women often took this low-paying,...
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| 1640 |
Tunnels, Dennis McClendon(
Authored Entry
) ...Chicago has been able to use tunnels to solve various infrastructure problems, thanks to an easily...
...alignment. This tunnel supplied water to the new Chicago Avenue pumping station and water tower. By...
...River Tunnels The low bridges crossing the Chicago River were frequently opened for the passage of...
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| 1641 |
Garfield Ridge, Jonathan J. Keyes(
Authored Entry
) ...Michigan Canal (completed 1848), and the Chicago & Alton Railroad (1850s). William B. Archer, I&M...
...John “Long John” Wentworth, one-time mayor of Chicago, farmer, and fellow land speculator, purchased...
...name occupies ground once owned by Wentworth. Chicago annexed the area in bits and pieces in 1889,...
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| 1642 |
Greater Grand Crossing, Wallace Best(
Authored Entry
) ...community areas . The entire area was annexed to Chicago in 1889 as part of Hyde Park Township ....
...40 others. The accident occurred at what is now 75th Street and South Chicago Avenue when Roswell B....
...Mason, who was to become a Chicago mayor , secretly had intersecting tracks built for the Illinois...
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| 1643 |
Archer Heights, Jonathan J. Keyes(
Authored Entry
) ...as a part of the passage that connected the Chicago and Des Plaines Rivers . The swamps and prairies...
...where the Stevenson Expressway does now; the Chicago & Alton Railroad , which paralleled the canal;...
...and Archer Road were the first thoroughfares to Chicago, but they had little effect on the area's...
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| 1644 |
Virgil, IL, Erik Gellman(
Authored Entry
) ...Virgil in the early twentieth century witnessed the town at its peak with a general store, bank, and...
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| 1645 |
Channahon, IL, Erik Gellman(
Authored Entry
) ...Des Plaines , Kankakee, and DuPage Rivers. The town grew inthe 1840s with the construction of the...
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| 1646 |
Minooka, IL, Erik Gellman(
Authored Entry
) ...Loop. Minooka incorporated in 1869 as a thriving town along the Rock Island Railroad . Originally...
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| 1647 |
Peotone, IL, Erik Gellman(
Authored Entry
) ...tional Register of Historic Places in 1982. The town remained a small farming community throughout...
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| 1648 |
Porter, IN, Erik Gellman(
Authored Entry
) ...the name to Porter Township, from which the town of Porter later took its name. Industry followed...
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| 1649 |
North Lawndale, Amanda Seligman(
Authored Entry
) ...group. Eastern European Jews still living in the old Near West Side ghetto mocked those who left for...
...the Great Fire of 1871 and then bustled as Chicago's Jewish ghetto. The neighborhood's landscape was...
...an improved toll road . The extension of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad prompted further...
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| 1650 |
Rainbow Beach, Charles E. Clifton(
Authored Entry
) ...and challenge de facto segregationist policies in Chicago. On Sunday, despite the presence of the...
...Dating back to the race riots of 1919, Chicago has had a history of youth violence connected to the...
...families had lived near the steel mills of South Chicago . However, black families had for the most...
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