| 1781 |
Illinois Institute of Technology, Wilbur Applebaum(
Authored Entry
) ...played a significant role in the shaping of Chicago's skyline. The Stuart School of Management and...
...acres about three miles south of the Loop . Chicago-Kent College of Law, the Institute of Design,...
...with industry and the business community of the Chicago area, and, beginning in 1936, added several...
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| 1782 |
International Amphitheater, Sarah Fenton(
Authored Entry
) ...the International Live Stock Exhibition when Chicago was hog butcher to the world, the amphitheater...
...and Halsted Streets, on the east side of the Chicago Union Stock Yard, four miles from the Loop ....
...convention halls; when construction finished, Chicago's reign as a convention capital began. Among...
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| 1783 |
Magnificent Mile, John W. Stamper(
Authored Entry
) ...Chicago's North Michigan Avenue, one of the city's most prestigious commercial and residential...
...proposed in Daniel Burnham's 1909 Plan of Chicago, and constructed in the 1920s. The avenue replaced...
...Station, are among the oldest structures in Chicago. Buildings constructed on the avenue during the...
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| 1784 |
Newberry Library, Martha T. Briggs and Cynthia H. Peters(
Authored Entry
) ...the estate of Walter Loomis Newberry, an early Chicago pioneer involved in banking, shipping, real...
...W. Blatchford established the library in 1887 on Chicago's Near North Side and hired its first...
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| 1785 |
Operation PUSH, James Ralph(
Authored Entry
) ...movement . When the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) targeted Chicago in 1965, Jesse...
...Jackson helped formally organize Chicago ministers to promote more employment opportunities for...
...it was the leading civil rights group in Chicago. In 1971, Jackson broke with SCLC, and Operation...
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| 1786 |
Field (Marshall) & Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...the Target Corp. , it employed nearly 16,000 Chicago-area residents, who worked at Target discount...
...In 1856, the 21-year-old Marshall Field...
...moved to Chicago from Massachusetts. He immediately began working at Cooley, Wadsworth & Co. By the...
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| 1787 |
Robbins, IL, Andrew Wiese(
Authored Entry
) ...Robbins remained one of the few places in greater Chicago where African Americans with very limited...
...is the oldest majority-black suburb in the Chicago area and one of the oldest incorporated black...
...territory. Robbins was one of few places in the Chicago suburbs where African Americans could...
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| 1788 |
McDonald's Corp., (
Authored Entry
) ...a symbol of America around the world. In the Chicago area, the company employed about 6,000 people....
...Plaines; it was the first McDonald's in the Chicago area. The chain grew at an extraordinary rate:...
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| 1789 |
Rolling Meadows, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
Authored Entry
) ...began annexing land for future development. The town boomed during the 1950s and 1960s as businesses...
...a floor plan of his basic house in the Chicago Tribune. Although the response was positive,...
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| 1790 |
Vernon Hills, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
Authored Entry
) ...Day in 1994, linking the southeast corner of town to everything north and giving the community a new...
...once belonged to John F. Cuneo, a prominent Chicago businessman. The former Cuneo Estates continued...
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| 1791 |
Phoenix, IL, Larry A. McClellan(
Authored Entry
) ...residents lived mainly in the southern part of town, and African Americans in the northern part. In...
...by 1920, there was a greater influx of blacks from Chicago and the South. Industry in Harvey and the...
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| 1792 |
United Air Lines, (
Business Dictionary
) ...postal service to deliver mail to the Pacific coast. One of these early airlines, the Boeing Air...
...founded by William Boeing in 1927; it flew between Chicago and San Francisco. By 1931, Boeing Air...
...Air Transport, another airline that flew out of Chicago—was part of the United Aircraft & Transport...
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| 1793 |
Consolidated Foods Corp., (
Business Dictionary
) ...bought the Kitchens of Sara Lee, a five-year-old Chicago bakery named after the daughter of founder...
...century as Sara Lee Corp. was the descendant of a Chicago grocery store called Sprague, Warner & Co....
...enterprise based in Baltimore. The new Chicago-based company, at first called Sprague Warner- Kenny...
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| 1794 |
National Biscuit Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...cracker-making giant that also included the old operations of the New York Biscuit Co. National...
...nearly 1,300 men and women at its bakeries in Chicago, one of which was built especially to produce...
...Nabisco) still had over 1,000 workers in the Chicago area. In 1985, Nabisco was purchased by tobacco...
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| 1795 |
Metropolitan Statistical Area, William Erbe(
Authored Entry
) ...into the metropolitan area. The sprawling Chicago urbanized area is populous enough to characterize...
...Porter Counties in northwestern Indiana, combined to form a three-state Chicago-Gary-Kenosha CMSA....
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| 1796 |
Goose Island, Amanda Seligman(
Authored Entry
) ...when he had a canal cut across the meandering path of the Chicago River's North Branch approximately...
...from North Avenue to Chicago Avenue. The waterfront sites drew noisome industries, including...
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| 1797 |
Aragon Ballroom, Geoffrey Klingsporn(
Authored Entry
) ...became a center of dance-hall culture in Chicago. Designed by Huszagh & Hill, the interior lavishly...
...alongside the “L,” it drew dancers from across Chicago and the suburbs. In 1927, WGN began live...
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| 1798 |
Jewelers' Row, Eli Rubin(
Authored Entry
) ...and retailers. By World War II , the most important Chicago firms, like Sherman Tucker and M. Y....
...son Marshall brought international fame to the Chicago jewelry trade in international gem markets...
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| 1799 |
Juvenile Protective Association, Michael Willrich(
Authored Entry
) ...as a vital center of social service and advocacy on behalf of child and family welfare in Chicago....
...established America's first juvenile court in Chicago, this women-led reform organization emerged in...
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| 1800 |
Kelly-Nash Machine, Paul Green(
Authored Entry
) ...The Kelly-Nash Machine dominated Chicago government and the local Democratic Party from 1933 to...
...organization, these men shared political power in Chicago until Nash's death in 1943. Nash viewed...
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