| 1971 |
Curtiss Candy Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...the end of the century, the most popular of the old Curtiss brands were owned by Nestle, the Swiss...
...Founded in Chicago in 1916 by Otto Schnering, Curtiss Candy did just under $100,000 in sales during...
...candy industry. Control of the company left the Chicago area in 1964, when Curtiss was purchased by...
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| 1972 |
Jewel Cos., (
Business Dictionary
) ...in annual sales. In 1930, when the company had traded in its old horse-drawn vehicles for motorized...
...ones, it moved its headquarters from Chicago to suburban Barrington. Threatened by local ordinances...
...company started to open retail stores around Chicago. By 1936, it owned 100 stores, which together...
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| 1973 |
River Grove, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
Authored Entry
) ...using the trail and bridge took passengers from Chicago to Galena. In the 1840s the Spencer brothers...
...Park . In 1920 Volk Realty established the Chicago Home Gardens subdivision north of the Oak Park...
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| 1974 |
Welfare Capitalism, Stuart Brandes(
Authored Entry
) ...relations. While no American city became its hub, Chicago firms have presented prime examples of...
...as a profession and its linkage to the Chicago settlement house movement. Beeks's assignment was...
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| 1975 |
Woodridge, IL, Aaron Harwig(
Authored Entry
) ...suburban development that took place outside Chicago after World War II. In less than 40 years,...
...and construction decreased travel times to and from Chicago and opened up new areas for development....
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| 1976 |
Home Building and Sanborn Insurance Atlases, Richard Harris(
Authored Entry
) ...as Samuel Gross did on Alta Vista Terrace in Chicago's Lake View Community Area, they left their...
...mark. Many Chicago areas were developed with a singular vision. Riverside was the province of the...
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| 1977 |
Clarendon Hills, IL, Tom Sterling(
Authored Entry
) ...Loop. Clarendon Hills, a commuter village along the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad , roughly...
...as much as 70 feet above Lake Michigan. When the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad began service...
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| 1978 |
Congress of Industrial Organizations, Steve Rosswurm(
Authored Entry
) ...the CIO were the Memorial Day Massacre , when Chicago police officers attacked striking Republic...
...who accounted for 100,000 to 125,000 of Chicago-area CIO members, on average, throughout much of its...
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| 1979 |
Model Cities, D. Bradford Hunt(
Authored Entry
) ...delivery, and citizen participation. In Chicago, Model Cities generated significant controversy,...
...to existing city bureaucracies, including the Chicago Transit Authority , the Board of Health, the...
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| 1980 |
Mount Greenwood, Clinton E. Stockwell(
Authored Entry
) ...1927 Mount Greenwood voted for annexation to Chicago, hoping for improvements such as sewers, water...
...farm in the city, which wasdeveloped as the Chicago High School for Agricultural Sciences. The...
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| 1981 |
Ward (Montgomery) & Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...and still employed close to 7,000 people in the Chicago area, Ward announced that it would shut down...
...After nearly 130 years in business as a major Chicago company and leading American retailer, the...
...great mail-order retail company was founded in Chicago in 1872 by Aaron Montgomery Ward. Ward, a New...
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| 1982 |
Foote, Cone & Belding, (
Business Dictionary
) ...Inc. , a new global ad firm headquartered in Chicago. At the end of the century, True North had...
...revenues and employed about 1,200 people in the Chicago area. In 2001, Interpublic purchased True...
...as a part of Interpublic, still ranked as Chicago's second-largest advertising agency, but it had...
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| 1983 |
Sears, Roebuck & Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...in suburban Hoffman Estates, employed about 8,000 men and women in the Chicago area. The...
...year 2001 was a milestone for Sears in Chicago, as it opened a large store on downtown State Street...
...The business that would become Chicago's leading company and America's leading retailer for much of...
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| 1984 |
Neighborhood Change, 1853-2003 (Essay), Map Author: Michael P. Conzen and (Research assistance: Douglas Knox, Dennis McClendon)(
Rich Map (Essay)
) ...development, being almost a mile beyond the southern edge of town. Just one grand villa had been...
...built. By 1877, following the great Chicago fire the eleven-block area had largely filled up with...
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| 1985 |
General American Transportation Corp., (
Business Dictionary
) ...the end of the 1990s, GATX, still headquartered in Chicago, owned a fleet of nearly 90,000 railcars,...
...In 1898, Max Epstein founded a Chicago-based railcar leasing firm called the Atlantic Seaboard...
...opened repair and maintenance shops in East Chicago, Indiana; it then began to manufacture new steel...
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| 1986 |
Seipp (Conrad) Brewing Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...an immigrant from Germany, started making beer in Chicago in 1854, after buying a small brewery from...
...of the 1860s, when Seipp & Lehman was one of Chicago's leading brewers, about 50 employees made more...
...the Conrad Seipp Brewing Co. Dominating the Chicago beer market by the late 1870s, Seipp was among...
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| 1987 |
Swift & Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...off and moved to Texas. Swift, once one of Chicago's leading employers and largest companies, no...
...In 1875, Swift began buying cattle in Chicago to send to his family's butcher operations back East....
...refrigerated railcars to ship fresh meat from Chicago to Eastern markets. The company soon set up a...
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| 1988 |
Abbott Laboratories, (
Business Dictionary
) ...Chicago physician Wallace C. Abbott founded the Abbott Alkoloidal Co. in 1900. Abbott's experiments...
...in 1915, in 1920 the company moved to a new headquarters in North Chicago. In the mid-1930s,...
...Abbott employed about 750 men and women in the Chicago area. Sales of anesthetics such as “Nembutal”...
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| 1989 |
National Malleable and Steel Castings Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...The Chicago Malleable Iron Co. was founded 1873 by Alfred A. Pope and John C. Coonley,...
...emp loyed nearly 1,000 men at its 26th and Western Chicago works, which made metal products for the...
...and horse-drawn carriage industries. In 1891, Chicago Malleable became part of the new National...
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| 1990 |
Soils, Donald J. Fehrenbacher(
Authored Entry
) ...The soils of the Chicago region were formed by five universal factors: parent material, topography ,...
...to dig in, particularly when dry. Most of Chicago was built on the lakebed soils, which were too wet...
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