| 1821 |
Nuveen (John) Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...with his family in 1866, when he was two years old. After working for several of the city's merchant...
...in the marketing of municipal bonds issued by towns around the Midwest, as well as in Puerto Rico....
...Companies of Minnesota. During the 1990s, as a Chicago-based division of St. Paul, Nuveen began to...
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| 1822 |
Pinkerton National Detective Agency, (
Business Dictionary
) ...Pinkerton emigrated from Scotland to the United States in 1842, when he was 23 years old; he soon...
...settled in the town of Dundee, northwest of Chicago. By the beginning of the 1850s, Pinkerton and a...
...70 branch offices (including central offices in Chicago and New York), about $75 million in annual...
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| 1823 |
Crate & Barrel, (
Business Dictionary
) ...The Segals began with a small store in the city's Old...
...Town neighborhood; they began to issue catalogs in 1967. Between 1968 and 1975, they added new...
...retail chain was created in 1962 by two young Chicago residents, Gordon and Carole Segal....
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| 1824 |
Northwestern Terra Cotta Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...with the company. Included among the many landmark Chicago buildings for which Northwestern supplied...
...moldings were the Civic Opera House, the Chicago Theater, the Wrigley Building, and the Randolph...
...Tower. Northwestern's operations in Chicago declined alongside the construction industry during...
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| 1825 |
Ben Hecht: Lake Thoughts, (
Authored Entry
) ...In 1921, the Chicago Daily News began running a column by Ben Hecht entitled “One Thousand and...
...Afternoons. ” Ruminating on life in general and on Chicago more particularly, Hecht considered the...
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| 1826 |
Ida B. Wells: African Americans at the World's Columbian Exposition, (
Authored Entry
) ...a fierce opponent of lynching. She came to Chicago in 1893 to protest the exclusion of African...
...died in 1895, but Wells moved permanently to Chicago and became involved in a wide range of civic...
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| 1827 |
Oswego, IL, Brandon Johnson(
Authored Entry
) ...Aurora owing to the latter's position on the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad . Oswego is home...
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| 1828 |
Council on Fine Arts, Steve Scott(
Authored Entry
) ...of the arts, the 15-member, mayor-appointed Chicago Council on Fine Arts (CCFA) began work in...
...arts groups. In 1984, the council (renamed the Chicago Office of Fine Arts) was combined with the...
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| 1829 |
Elburn, IL, Craig L. Pfannkuche(
Authored Entry
) ...the Loop. Named Blackberry Station when the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad built through the area...
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| 1830 |
Naper Settlement, Harold R. Wilde(
Authored Entry
) ...outdoor historic village in metropolitan Chicago, began in 1969 as a cooperative effort between the...
...and print shops, the first hotel built west of Chicago, and the Martin Mitchell house (1883), deeded...
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| 1831 |
Hubbard (Gurdon S.) & Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...Hubbard worked in the town during the 1820s, when it was little more than an outpost of the American...
...Co. In the 1830s, Hubbard became one of the town's first meatpackers. By the mid-1840s, his packing...
...One of Chicago's first business leaders, Gurdon S....
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| 1832 |
Morton Salt Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...In 1880, a 25-year-old Nebraskan named Joy...
...Morton arrived in Chicago to become a new partner in E. I. Wheeler & Co. ,...
...marketing firm. Wheeler & Co. originated as a Chicago firm called Richmond & Co. , which in 1848 had...
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| 1833 |
Brighton Park, Clinton E. Stockwell(
Authored Entry
) ...mills relocated to Blue Island , Illinois. The Chicago & Alton Railroad established a roundhouse in...
...In 1889 Brighton Park was annexed to the city of Chicago as part of Lake Township . By the 1880s and...
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| 1834 |
Hermosa, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
Authored Entry
) ...by railroad tracks and embankments. The Chicago & North Western Railroad line forms its western...
...south borders are hemmed by two lines of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad (CM&SP). To the...
...for a depot, which was named after him. Chicago annexed the area in 1889 under the name Hermosa, a...
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| 1835 |
Joliet, IL, Robert E. Sterling(
Authored Entry
) ...of stone for prison walls and cell houses. The Chicago Fire of 1871 spurred demand for stone and by...
...railroad carloads of stone per month to Chicago and other cities. The “City of Steel” emerged with...
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| 1836 |
Ravinia, Michael H. Ebner(
Authored Entry
) ...Walter Hendl, associate conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra , served as the first artistic...
...patrons organized a campaign directed by Chicago philanthropist Louis Eckstein to purchase the...
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| 1837 |
Camp Douglas, Theodore J. Karamanski(
Authored Entry
) ...a high mortality rate: one prisoner in seven died in Chicago. Poor sanitation, hastily constructed...
...the camp, but only the abortive November 1864 “Chicago Conspiracy” roused broad concern. Federal...
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| 1838 |
Samuel Insull: Electric Magnate, Harold L. Platt(
Authored Entry
) ...a monopoly of central station service in Chicago for the renamed Commonwealth Edison Company. Insull...
...1892, Insull became the president of the Chicago Edison Company, one of several electric companies...
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| 1839 |
Palmer House, Anne Moore(
Authored Entry
) ...Loop business district, the Art Institute of Chicago , and downtown theaters . Too, its vast meeting...
...was long the pinnacle of grandeur and luxury in Chicago and was for decades the hotel of choice for...
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| 1840 |
Polish Roman Catholic Union of America, Joseph John Parot(
Authored Entry
) ...it listed more than 300 lodges in the greater Chicago area and nearly three times that number in 23...
...Theodore Gieryk, it held its first convention in Chicago the following year, at Reverend Barzynski's...
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