| 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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| 1931 |
Wolff (L.) Manufacturing Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...he was 18 years old. The following year, he started a small plumbing business with Torrence McGuire...
...the company had about 3,500 workers at two Chicago-area plants and sales and service operations in...
...Ludwig Wolff emigrated with his family from Germany to Chicago in 1854, when...
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| 1932 |
Farwell (John V.) & Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...the United States. In 1838, when he was 13 years old, John V. Farwell moved with his family from New...
...sales and employed over 1,000 people at its Chicago headquarters, but it was no longer growing and...
...to Illinois. In 1845, the young Farwell headed to Chicago, where he worked as a clerk for several...
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| 1933 |
Batavia, IL, Marilyn Robinson(
Authored Entry
) ...The Windmill City. ” Following the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 , quarries in Batavia shipped Niagara...
...produced most of the newsprint used by the Chicago Tribune, and the Western Paper Bag Company made...
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| 1934 |
Tax Strikes, David T. Beito(
Authored Entry
) ...Between 1931 and 1933, Chicago and Cook County experienced one of the largest tax strikes in...
...budget of over $600,000 and a radio show in Chicago. But it suffered a demoralizing blow in October...
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| 1935 |
Torrens Title, John T. Durkin(
Authored Entry
) ...a substantial improvement over past systems. The Chicago fire of 1871 destroyed Cook County real-...
...estate records. As Chicago and Cook County were expanding rapidly, providing an adequate...
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| 1936 |
Traction Ordinances, Harold L. Platt(
Authored Entry
) ...Passed in February 1907 by the Chicago City Council, the traction ordinances represented the...
...The roots of the controversy lay in Chicago's tremendous growth in size and population following the...
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| 1937 |
DePaul University, Sarah Fenton(
Authored Entry
) ...institution with campuses in the heart of Chicago and its outlying suburbs, DePaul is also (since...
...its founding Vincentian fathers traveled to Chicago from LaSalle, Illinois, and established a church...
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| 1938 |
Capital Punishment, Jess Maghan(
Authored Entry
) ...murder, arson, horse stealing, and rape. In Chicago, a bitter legacy of justice is found in the 171...
...penalty remained a controversial issue in Chicago's legal and civic community. Execution by lethal...
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| 1939 |
Coal City, IL, Brandon Johnson(
Authored Entry
) ...the vast coal reserves that lie just south of Chicago. Peter Lansett, a Canadian , has been credited...
...made Coal City a major contributor of coal to Chicago. By the twentieth century, the manufacturing...
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| 1940 |
Fermilab, Adrienne W. Kolb(
Authored Entry
) ...Accelerator Laboratory (NAL). Continuing Chicago's tradition of scientific discovery that began with...
...nuclear chain reaction at the University of Chicago in 1942, NAL became an international center for...
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