| 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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| 1851 |
Rand McNally & Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...Inc. of New York, for $500 million. The 30-year-old AEA, whose founders included the Mellon and...
...In 1856, William H. Rand arrived in Chicago from Boston and set up a printing shop. Rand soon hired...
...two men started managing the printing shop of the Chicago Tribune newspaper. Rand, McNally & Co. was...
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| 1852 |
Link-Belt Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...Link-Belt employed over 1,000 people in the Chicago area. In 1967, Link-Belt, with annual sales...
...FMC Corp. , which moved its own headquarters from California to Chicago in 1972. See also FMC Corp....
...1875, with the aid of John C. Coonley of the Chicago Malleable Iron Co. and other investors, Ewart...
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| 1853 |
Hull House Maps Its Neighborhood, (
Interpretive Digital Essay (Gallery)
) ...Northwestern University Illustration 5796 4428 Chicago School of Sociology Hull House Wage Map No. 1...
...Northwestern University Illustration 5706 4410 Chicago School of Sociology Hull House Settlement...
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| 1854 |
Automatic Electric Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...Corp. , a joint venture between GTE and its old rival AT&T. By the end of the twentieth century, the...
...telephone equipment manufacturer located in the Chicago area, Automatic Electric spent most of its...
...telephone switch. In 1891, Joseph B. Harris of Chicago convinced Strowger to move to Chicago, and...
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| 1855 |
Wrigley (Wm. Jr.) Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...working as a soap salesman for his father in Philadelphia, the 29-year-old William Wrigley, Jr. ,...
...moved to Chicago in 1891. He continued to sell soap, but soon offered other products, including...
...in 1892 from the Zeno Manufacturing Co. of Chicago. Among the early brands of gum made for Wrigley...
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| 1856 |
Automatic Canteen Co. of America, (
Business Dictionary
) ...1970s, the Trans World Corp. purchased the company, and management of its operations left Chicago....
...24-year-old in 1908. Leverone's company, the Automatic Canteen Co. of America, sold machines that...
...vending-machine industry was founded in 1929 by Nathaniel Leverone, who had arrived in Chicago as a...
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| 1857 |
Levy (Chas.) Circulating Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...In 1893, the 15-year-old Charles Levy won a horse and wagon in...
...the largest in the nation; it continued to call Chicago home and employed several hundred people in...
...a raffle and began to haul newspapers around Chicago's West Side. By the 1920s, his company was...
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| 1858 |
Glenview Naval Air Station, Perry R. Duis(
Authored Entry
) ...decks and towers. Thus, the more than 20-year-old Seeandbee, once the largest passenger vessel on...
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| 1859 |
Arnold, Schwinn & Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...Schwinn family to a group of investors led by Chicago's Sam Zell. In 1993, Schwinn's general offices...
...the midst of a national bicycle craze, Ignaz Schwinn (who arrived in Chicago from Germany in 1891)...
...and partner Adolph Arnold (a Chicago meat industry veteran) founded a bicycle manufacturing company....
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| 1860 |
Container Corp. of America, (
Business Dictionary
) ...merged with Montgomery Ward Co. , the giant Chicago-based retailer; the new parent company was...
...This company's 1998 merger with the Chicago-based Stone Container Corp. , which created the Smurfit-...
...of Container Corp. were again managed from Chicago. See also Ward (Montgomery) & Co. and Stone...
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