| 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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| 1861 |
Trout Valley, IL, Craig L. Pfannkuche(
Authored Entry
) ...horse-breeding farm owned by John Hertz of Chicago taxi and auto rental fame and, later, a Curtiss...
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| 1862 |
Union, IL, Craig L. Pfannkuche(
Authored Entry
) ...Platted in 1851 as a station on the Galena & Chicago Union Railroad , the village failed to prosper....
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| 1863 |
Volo, IL, Craig L. Pfannkuche(
Authored Entry
) ...of the Loop. Formed at the junction of the Chicago—Lake Geneva and Waukegan — Woodstock stage trails...
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| 1864 |
Braidwood, IL, Brandon Johnson(
Authored Entry
) ...Braidwood soon became a major coal supplier to Chicago. Irish , Welsh , Scottish , and Czech miners,...
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| 1865 |
Yorkville, IL, Brandon Johnson(
Authored Entry
) ...in local importance with the arrival of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad in 1870. Smaller...
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| 1866 |
Hebron, IN, Brandon Johnson(
Authored Entry
) ...only the 1863 arrival of the Pittsburgh, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad motivated significant growth....
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| 1867 |
Lowell, IN, Steven Essig(
Authored Entry
) ...and other industries or commute to jobs in Chicago, Gary , Hammond , or areas further south....
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| 1868 |
Gilberts, IL, Craig L. Pfannkuche(
Authored Entry
) ...in 1855 as Gilbert's Station along the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad , the community served as a...
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| 1869 |
Hampshire, IL, Craig L. Pfannkuche(
Authored Entry
) ...Henpeck, settled in 1839 along the Galena–Chicago Road north of the present village, was abandoned...
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| 1870 |
Hebron, IL, Brandon Johnson(
Authored Entry
) ...the township's farmers to ship livestock to Chicago's stockyards. Incorporated in 1895, Hebron...
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