| 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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| 1841 |
Illinois Bell Telephone Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...when it employed about 20,000 people in the Chicago area and collected nearly $20 billion in annual...
...serving most of the phone customers in the Chicago area were now located in San Antonio, Texas....
...three years later, it became part of the Chicago Telephone Co. By the beginning of the twentieth...
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| 1842 |
Kuppenheimer (B.) & Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...to the United States in 1850 when he was 21 years old. In 1865, he became a partner in the Chicago...
...been established two years earlier. In 1876, the old firm dissolved, and B. Kuppenheimer and his son...
...until 1982, when it was purchased by another old Chicago clothing company, Hart, Schaffner & Marx (...
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| 1843 |
Schuttler (Peter) Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...in westward migration to California after the 1849 Gold Rush. By the middle of the 1850s, Schuttler...
...to the United States in 1834 when he was 22 years old. After working as a wagon maker in Sandusky,...
...to prosper. In 1863, he was one of only three Chicago residents (Potter Palmer and John V. Farwell...
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| 1844 |
Butler Bros., (
Business Dictionary
) ...Federated stores around the country, mostly in small towns. During the 1940s and 1950s, Butler Bros....
...company in Boston in 1877. Butler Bros. opened a Chicago warehouse in 1879, and the city became home...
...department. (All of its operations were based in Chicago after 1930, when the purchasing department...
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| 1845 |
Housing, Mail-Order, Mark S. Harmon(
Authored Entry
) ...over $11,000,000 in mortgages were liquidated. Chicago-area communities that had large rail sidings...
...a list of more than 200 potential ones. Many Chicago suburban communities like Elgin , Glen Ellyn ,...
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| 1846 |
Neighborhood Succession, Steven Essig(
Authored Entry
) ...half of the twentieth century, class change in Chicago neighborhoods was generally accompanied by a...
...late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century Chicago, this process often involved the departure of...
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| 1847 |
Armour & Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...another 1,400 men and 400 women worked for its Chicago-area auxiliaries, which produced soap, glue,...
...period. In 1959, Armour stopped slaughtering in Chicago. In 1970, Armour was bought by the Greyhound...
...of the Civil War. In 1875, he moved to Chicago to take charge of Armour & Co. (a firm owned by...
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| 1848 |
Pepper Construction Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...under a newly formed holding company in Chicago, Pepper Construction Group LLC. Pepper Construction...
...Co. continued to operate out of Chicago in the early 2000s, claiming about 1,000 employees and $900...
...shop at Marshall Field & Co. , the leading Chicago retailer. His son, Stanley Pepper, started his...
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| 1849 |
Signode Steel Strapping Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...Fremont Murphy formed the Seal & Fastener Co. in Chicago. The company made steel strapping systems,...
...operations were transferred to Glenview, northwest of Chicago. By the early 1960s, when annual sales...
...company employed more than 1,000 people in the Chicago area. In 1964, when the company was renamed...
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| 1850 |
Crane Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...Richard Teller Crane, a nephew of Chicago lumber dealer Martin...
...Ryerson, moved to Chicago from New Jersey in 1855. Richard and his brother Charles soon formed R. T....
...it was making elevators as well. After the Chicago Fire of 1871 , the company decided to expand its...
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