| 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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| 1921 |
IC Industries Inc., (
Business Dictionary
) ...Minneapolis but maintained most of its operations in Chicago. See also Illinois Central Railroad ....
...that had been employing hundreds of workers in the Chicago area. During the early 1970s, the company...
...bought Pepsi-Cola General Bottlers Inc. of Chicago, as well Midas International Corp. , the Chicago-...
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| 1922 |
Horse Racing, Steven A. Riess(
Authored Entry
) ...Park Race Track, 1903. Photographer: Unknown. Source: Chicago Historical Society. FIGURE 1...
...Racing in turn-of-the-century metropolitan Chicago was very tenuous. In 1891, after horseman Edward...
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| 1923 |
Acme Steel Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...The Acme Flexible Clasp Co. was founded in Chicago in 1884. In 1899, the company merged with the...
...James E. MacMurray. The new company, based in Chicago, changed its name to the Acme Steel Goods Co....
...Depression), Acme employed about 1,400 Chicago-area residents. A new plant opened in Riverdale,...
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| 1924 |
Republic Steel Corp., (
Business Dictionary
) ...still employed about 5,000 people in the Chicago area. Republic was purchased by Texas-based steel...
...Republic's operations continued in southeastern Chicago for a time, a successive wave of additional...
...mills in Alabama; Youngstown, Ohio; and the Chicago area. In 1910, it employed about 900 men at its...
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| 1925 |
Wilson Sporting Goods Co., John H. Long.(
Business Dictionary
) ...This Chicago-based manufacturer of athletic gear began in 1913 as Ashland Manufacturing, which was...
...1930s, the company's plant on Powell Avenue in Chicago employed about 800 people. By the middle of...
...States. The company's headquarters moved from Chicago to the suburb of River Grove in 1957. After...
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| 1926 |
Morrison, Plummer & Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...1876, Robert Morrison and Jonathan W. Plummer moved their three-year-old drug wholesaling business...
...from Richmond, Indiana, to Chicago. At the turn of the century, Morrison's son James became the...
...the McKesson & Robbins; in the 1930s, the Chicago-based firm was known as McKesson-Fuller-Morrison....
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| 1927 |
Pullman Inc., Martha T. Briggs. and Cynthia H. Peters(
Business Dictionary
) ...to build a new manufacturing plant and a company town on a site about 14 miles south of downtown...
...Chicago. By 1885, the population of the town had risen to nearly 9,000 men, women, and children. In...
...company to sell its non-factory lands in the town. The company, however, continued to grow. By 1900,...
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| 1928 |
Stone Container Corp., (
Business Dictionary
) ...in annual sales and employed about 1,200 people in the Chicago area, where it made its headquarters....
...around 1888, Joseph H. Stone made his way to Chicago, where he worked as a cigar maker. By the late...
...factory at 42nd Place and Keeler Avenue in Chicago. In 1945, by which time the company owned another...
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| 1929 |
Commonwealth Edison Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...The Western Edison Light Co. was founded in Chicago in 1882, three years after Thomas Edison...
...developed a practical light bulb. In 1887, Western Edison became the Chicago Edison Co. Samuel L....
...Insull became president of Chicago Edison in 1892; in 1897 Insull incorporated another electric...
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| 1930 |
Olympia Fields, IL, John H. Long(
Authored Entry
) ...Amusement Park , which drew patrons from Chicago each summer from 1890 to 1913, occupied several...
...Illinois Central scheduled “golf specials” from Chicago to Olympia Fields and other clubs. An elite...
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