| 1951 |
Follett Corp., (
Business Dictionary
) ...the mid-1970s, Follett had about 800 employees in the Chicago area, and annual sales were around $50...
...of the 1990s, Follett—based in River Grove, just west of Chicago—reached $1 billion in annual sales...
...and employed about 2,000 people in the Chicago area....
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| 1952 |
Fraser & Chalmers, (
Business Dictionary
) ...Allis-Chalmers became a leading employer in the Chicago area. As late as the mid-1970s, it had over...
...In 1872, Thomas Chalmers founded this Chicago manufacturer of mining machinery, boilers, and pumps....
...company employed about 1,000 workers at its Chicago plant and had become one of the world's largest...
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| 1953 |
LaSalle National Bank, (
Business Dictionary
) ...In the early years of the new century, LaSalle was Chicago's second-largest bank, with more than one...
...branches in the Midwest, over $50 billion in assets, and 10,000 employees in the Chicago area....
...National Builders' Bank was chartered in downtown Chicago in 1927 and managed to weather the Great...
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| 1954 |
Northwest Industries Inc., (
Business Dictionary
) ...Farley Industries Inc. but kept the headquarters in Chicago. This company had about 50,000 employees...
...but in 1991 it went bankrupt and was dismantled. See also Chicago & North Western Railroad Co....
...After Frank Lyon bought the Chicago & North Western Railway in 1956, he installed a young lawyer...
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| 1955 |
Wirtz Corp., (
Business Dictionary
) ...of $700 and employed about 1,600 people in the Chicago area. The real-estate arm of the corporation...
...of the next century. Wirtz Corp. also owned the Chicago Blackhawks hockey team and co-owned the...
...Center arena—where the Blackhawks and the Chicago Bulls basketball team played—with Bulls majority...
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| 1956 |
Capsonic Group LLC, (
Business Dictionary
) ...Michigan and Mexico. With nearly 200 employees—most in the Chicago area—and revenues approaching $...
...60 million, Capsonic Group ranked among Chicago's largest minority-owned firms....
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| 1957 |
Brunswick Corp., (
Business Dictionary
) ...billion and it employed over 1,200 people in the Chicago area and about 25,000 worldwide. During the...
...Brunswick was doing over $4 billion in annual sales and employed about 1,000 Chicago-area residents....
...had begun to make billiard tables in Cincinnati, Chicago, and other cities. In 1873, when Brunswick...
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| 1958 |
Spaghetti Bowl, David M. Young(
Authored Entry
) ...University of Illinois campus built nearby, which for a time was known as the Chicago Circle campus....
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| 1959 |
Tinker to Evers to Chance, David M. Oshinsky(
Authored Entry
) ...formed the legendary infield of the championship Chicago Cubs teams of the early 1900s. The slick...
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| 1960 |
Valparaiso University, Mel Doering(
Authored Entry
) ...second only to Harvard. (The University of Chicago was third; state schools had not yet become the...
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| 1961 |
Eastern Rite Catholics, Brandon Johnson(
Authored Entry
) ...common to Eastern Orthodoxy. Most of the Chicago area's Eastern Rite Catholics are Ukrainians ,...
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| 1962 |
Stateway Gardens, Erik Gellman(
Authored Entry
) ...over the project's underground economy . In 2001 the Chicago Housing Authority began the process of...
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| 1963 |
Printer's Row, Erik Gellman(
Authored Entry
) ...Dearborn—features examples of the First Chicago School of Architecture , including the Duplicator...
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| 1964 |
Bootlegging, Christopher Thale(
Authored Entry
) ...turned so violent that gangs , alcohol, and crime became a permanent part of Chicago's reputation....
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| 1965 |
Crown Point, IN, Peggy Tuck Sinko(
Authored Entry
) ...Point was a popular elopement destination for Chicago-area couples because there was no waiting...
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| 1966 |
Little Italy, Max Grinnell(
Authored Entry
) ...Chicago's “Little Italy” developed in the Near West Side around Halsted and Taylor Streets near Jane...
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| 1967 |
Dance Halls, Lewis A. Erenberg(
Authored Entry
) ...arriving on the “L” to dance. Photographer: Unknown. Source: Chicago Historical Society. FIGURE 1...
...Dance halls have played central roles in Chicago's civic life. In the 1820s and 1830s, Mark...
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| 1968 |
Hines (Edward) Lumber Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...wholesale lumberyard was a 45-acre facility on Chicago's South Side; it also had several smaller...
...the company employed about 500 people around Chicago, sales neared $300 million. Hines went out of...
...he moved with his family from Buffalo to Chicago in 1865, when he was still a boy, Edward Hines...
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| 1969 |
Veluchamy Enterprises, (
Business Dictionary
) ...owned nearly a dozen direct marketing businesses in the Chicago area, and one each in New Jersey and...
...India. With 1,500 Chicago-area employees, 1,500 more worldwide, and over $200 million in...
...ues, this family-owned and -operated company was one of Chicago's largest minority-owned firms....
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| 1970 |
Spiegel Inc., (
Business Dictionary
) ...with his family from Germany to the United States in 1848, when he was eight years old. In 1865,...
...Spiegel started a home furnishings store in Chicago. A 1903 merger with another furniture company...
...Spiegel employed about 5,000 people in the Chicago area. In 1982, Spiegel was acquired by Otto-...
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