| 1901 |
NAES College, Robert Galler(
Authored Entry
) ...Services (NAES) College was established in Chicago in 1974 to promote the use of tribal knowledge,...
...leadership and development. In addition to its Chicago campus in the West Ridge neighborhood, NAES...
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| 1902 |
Ding Dong School, James R. Belpedio(
Authored Entry
) ...Frances Horwich, professor of education at Chicago's Roosevelt College, to develop an on-screen...
...would appeal to preschoolers and their parents. Chicago broadcasts began on WNBQ-TV in October 1952...
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| 1903 |
American Plan, Stuart Brandes(
Authored Entry
) ...Corporation branded union organizers in its Chicago mills as “German propagandists” and demanded...
...a convention of Midwestern employers meeting in Chicago formally designated the nonunion or “open...
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| 1904 |
Free Thought, Bruce C. Nelson(
Authored Entry
) ...was deist, not atheist. In nineteenth-century Chicago, freethinkers, many of them immigrants from...
...The Congregation of Bohemian Freethinkers of Chicago, Svobodna obec Chicagu, founded in 1870, became...
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| 1905 |
Fuerzas Armadas de Liberación Nacional (FALN), Gina M. Pérez(
Authored Entry
) ...institutions, and corporate headquarters in Chicago, New York, and Washington DC, which killed six...
...These members, as well as others arrested in Chicago in the early 1980s, were charged and found...
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| 1906 |
Graffiti, Mary Lackritz Gray(
Authored Entry
) ...also called spray can art , appeared in Chicago in the 1980s. It began, as in New York, with “tags”...
...Gude and “writer” Dzine, can be found in many Chicago neighborhoods, thus bringing graffiti art into...
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| 1907 |
Juvenile Courts, David S. Tanenhaus(
Authored Entry
) ...Located across the street from Hull House , Chicago's juvenile court symbolized the optimism of its...
...a generation, juvenile courts based on the Chicago model had been established in all the states...
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| 1908 |
Liberians, Tracy N. Poe(
Authored Entry
) ...in the United States, the Liberian community in Chicago consisted of a few scattered individuals who...
...the Organization of the Liberian Community, Chicago has become a destination for Liberians because...
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| 1909 |
Metra, David M. Young(
Authored Entry
) ...Metra, the commuter railroad division of Chicago's Regional Transportation Authority , was created...
...a 546-mile commuter railroad system in Chicago and the suburbs. Although the commuter railroad...
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| 1910 |
Ojibwa, Helen Hornbeck Tanner(
Authored Entry
) ...and northern Wisconsin began moving into the Chicago region in the 1760s as part of the tribal...
...Ste. Marie district, maintained a community at Chicago for several years. By 1810, the Ojibwa, known...
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| 1911 |
American Car & Foundry Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...suffered from the rise of the automobile and the airplane; the Chicago plant closed in 1950....
...railroad cars and bridges, was established in Chicago in 1866. By the early 1870s, with about 300...
...Car & Foundry Co. , which had offices in Chicago but was headquartered in New York City. During the...
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| 1912 |
American Steel Foundries, (
Business Dictionary
) ...to grow into the 1970s, when it employed about 2,500 Chicago-area residents. By 2002, Amsted reached...
...annual sales and employed fewer than 1,000 Chicago-area residents but over 9,000 people nationwide....
...of George M. Sargent, then based in the Chicago suburb of Englewood. The company's headquarters...
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| 1913 |
Field Enterprises Inc., (
Business Dictionary
) ...country. In 1959, Field Enterprises bought the Chicago Daily News, which had long been one of the...
...of Vancouver, which soon opened offices in Chicago. By this time, Field Enterprises had ceased to...
...a wealthy grandson of the founder of the giant Chicago company, entered the publishing business by...
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| 1914 |
Beatrice Foods Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...million gallons of ice cream per year; its “Meadow Gold” brand of dairy products was particularly...
...1970s, Beatrice employed as many as 8,000 Chicago-area residents. After the company changed hands in...
...last of Beatrice was sold off, and the company that had once been one Chicago's largest was gone....
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| 1915 |
Stewart-Warner Corp., (
Business Dictionary
) ...companies. By the late 1990s, Stewart-Warner's Chicago presence had dwindled to the 20 employees at...
...J. Clark—the same men who in 1897 had created the Chicago Flexible Shaft Co. (which became Sunbeam)—...
...it had about 375 workers at its factory on Chicago's Diversey Avenue. In 1912, after buying the...
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| 1916 |
Helene Curtis Industries Inc., (
Business Dictionary
) ...end of the century, Unilever announced that it would close the old North Avenue plant, leaving the...
...company with little presence in the Chicago area....
...1960s, when it employed more than 1,000 people in Chicago, the company's annual sales of shampoo,...
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| 1917 |
Anglo-American Provision Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...National Packing Co. established by Armour, Swift, and other large Chicago packers....
...year, making it the third-largest packer in Chicago. By the end of the 1870s, using the name Anglo...
...to stand among the more important second-tier Chicago packers until 1902, when it became part of the...
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| 1918 |
International Harvester Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...trucks. It employed about 2,500 people in the Chicago area, one-tenth of the number who once worked...
...of plows and reapers, decided to move to Chicago in 1847, when he and his partner Charles M....
...built a reaper factory on the north bank of the Chicago River. McCormick's mechanical reapers (which...
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| 1919 |
Baxter Travenol Laboratories Inc., (
Business Dictionary
) ...sold off several divisions, including many of the old American Hospital Supply Corp. operations. At...
...Hospital Supply Corp. , an even larger Chicago-area medical supply company. The new company, which...
...sales; about 10,000 of its 50,000 employees worldwide were in the Chicago area. During the 1990s,...
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| 1920 |
Standard Oil Co. (Indiana), (
Business Dictionary
) ...remained in Chicago by the early 2000s, Amoco's old operations had become known by the BP name, and...
...refinery at Whiting, Indiana, southeast of Chicago. By the mid-1890s, the Whiting plant had become...
...of Indiana—which had its main offices in downtown Chicago—emerged as an independent company; it soon...
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