| 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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| 1801 |
Polish National Alliance, Joseph John Parot(
Authored Entry
) ...the PNA has maintained its national headquarters in Chicago, where it administers a sizeable library...
...simultaneously organized in Philadelphia and Chicago in 1880 by Polish exiles devoted to the twin...
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| 1802 |
Greyhound Corp., (
Business Dictionary
) ...venture came in 1970, when Greyhound began diversifying and acquired Armour-Dial, the old...
...Chicago-based meatpacking giant. In 1971, when...
...headquarters to Phoenix, about 1,000 jobs left the Chicago area. By the end of the century, after...
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| 1803 |
Jules Guerin, (
Interpretive Digital Essay (Gallery)
) ...message to Burnham, informing the architect of his imminent arrival in Chicago to work on the Plan....
...Author: Jules Guerin Source: Art Institute of Chicago Illustration 2355 2942 Burnham Plan Burnham &...
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| 1804 |
U.S. Steel Corp., (
Business Dictionary
) ...giant Pittsburgh-based company never had its headquarters in Chicago, but it was a leading local...
...employer throughout the twentieth century, and Chicago-area plants produced a large fraction of all...
...operated most of the large steel mills in the Chicago region, including the original plant and South...
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| 1805 |
Fair Planners and Builders, (
Interpretive Digital Essay (Gallery)
) ...chief designer. Photographer: Unknown Source: Chicago Historical Society (ICHi-02208) Illustration...
...of Construction. Photographer: Unknown Source: Chicago Historical Society (ICHi-13663) Illustration...
...4159 3251 Burnham Plan Planning Chicago World's Columbian Exposition Burnham's Team on the Site This...
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| 1806 |
Playboy Enterprises Inc., Max Grinnell.(
Business Dictionary
) ...the country. In 1982, Christie Hefner, the 29-year-old daughter of the founder, took charge of the...
...Twenty-seven-year-old Hugh Hefner, a former sociology student at Northwestern University, started...
...and Playboy employed about 500 people in the Chicago area. Playboy's revenues and circulation fell...
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| 1807 |
Tribune Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...company employed nearly 6,000 people in the Chicago area. It continued to grow vigorously through...
...The Chicago Daily Tribune newspaper was founded in 1847. In 1861,...
...associated with the paper, the name changed to Chicago Tribune. After a few years in other pursuits,...
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| 1808 |
Rosemont, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
Authored Entry
) ...a milk stop drew truck farmers, mostly of German heritage, who peddled produce in Chicago. Parcels...
...of Rosemont land were sold in Chicago at the 1933 Century of Progress Exposition . Construction...
...hangars. Following World War II , the city of Chicago bought the plant and in 1949 changed the name...
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| 1809 |
Bellwood, IL, Patricia Krone Rose(
Authored Entry
) ...Harbor Belt tracks. Rail passenger service, available via the Chicago, Aurora & Elgin Railway (...
...interurban ) and the Chicago & North Western Railway, encouraged residential development in other...
...even as it contributed to the demise of the Chicago, Aurora & Elgin in 1957. The population jumped...
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| 1810 |
Pilsen, Erik Gellman(
Authored Entry
) ...a major route of trade from the hinterland into Chicago, which is now Ogden Avenue), the Illinois &...
...Michigan Canal (the South Branch of the Chicago River forms the southern and eastern borders of the...
...Side to expand the University of Illinois at Chicago , Mexican migrants became predominant in the...
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