| 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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| 1811 |
Free Speech, Franklin Rosemont(
Authored Entry
) ...Open (or free-speech) forums flourished in Chicago during the first half of the twentieth century,...
...figure prominently in fiction by prominent Chicago's authors. Writers as diverse as Carl Sandburg,...
...has obscured their educational significance. Chicago writers and public intellectuals have affirmed,...
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| 1812 |
Grayslake, IL, Craig L. Pfannkuche(
Authored Entry
) ...Gray followed a difficult Indian trail from Chicago and settled at the southeast shore of an unnamed...
...Central Railroad began building a line from Chicago to Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, in the early 1880s. A...
...gave village residents additional access to Chicago's products and amenities. Grayslake grew slowly,...
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| 1813 |
Hickory Hills, IL, Larry A. McClellan(
Authored Entry
) ...quarter of Palos Township, southwestof Chicago. Approximately half of the township is forest...
...Slough and trails through the area to the Chicago portages . Settlers from eastern states arrived as...
...workers employed in defense industries in the Chicago region. In 1951, the desire on the part of...
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| 1814 |
Hillside, IL, Patricia Krone Rose(
Authored Entry
) ...of a network of expressways serving the Chicago region. Interstate 290 cuts throughthe village from...
...crushed stone for road-building throughout the Chicago region. Against the wishes of most village...
...Central Railroad and from a spur of the Chicago, Aurora & Elgin interurban that followed 12th...
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| 1815 |
Lyric Opera, John von Rhein(
Authored Entry
) ...reorganized company—presented seasons at Chicago's Auditorium Theater and the Civic Opera House. All...
...father, the three formed the Lyric Theatre of Chicago in 1952. Their plan was to restore the city to...
...took sole command of a rechristened Lyric Opera of Chicago, the company had been nicknamed “La Scala...
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| 1816 |
Avalon Park, Wallace Best(
Authored Entry
) ...isolation made it a site for waste disposal . The borders of the community are South Chicago Avenue...
...and the Chicago Skyway to the northeast, 87th Street on the southern edge, and the Illinois Central...
...also made Avalon Park their home. Annexation to Chicago in 1889, the World's Columbian Exposition of...
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| 1817 |
Burnham & Root, (
Business Dictionary
) ...and the Masonic Temple, which became Chicago's first 20-story building when it was completed in...
...his associates continued to design many notable Chicago buildings, including the Reliance Building;...
...the Field Museum, completed in 1920. Outside Chicago, major works of the Burnham firm included the...
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| 1818 |
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, (
Business Dictionary
) ...late 1980s, when it employed about 700 people in Chicago, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill was the city's...
...architecture firm. At the end of the 1990s, Chicago-area projects accounted for about one-third of...
...local workforce, it maintained offices in Chicago, New York, San Francisco, Washington DC, Los...
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| 1819 |
Building Trades and Workers, Richard Schneirov(
Authored Entry
) ...changes were well underway by midcentury, when Chicago experienced its greatest growth. With the...
...were often aided by a hands-off approach from Chicago police . In 1890–91, during construction of...
...for contractors. Under intense pressure from Chicago business, Democratic mayor Carter Harrison II...
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| 1820 |
Whittman-Hart Inc., (
Business Dictionary
) ...and consulting firm in 1984 when he was 22 years old. In 1990 his partner William Merchantz departed...
...2003, Robert Bernard reacquired some of his old company's liquidated units and launched a slimmed-...
...Bernard, a son of an electrician who worked for Chicago's Inland Steel Co. , founded this computer...
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