| 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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| 1991 |
Hammond, IN, Joseph C. Bigott(
Authored Entry
) ...last stop for westbound rail traffic entering Chicago. City officials supported the strikers. But...
...as industrial as its neighbors Whiting , East Chicago , and Gary . Instead, Hammond developed an...
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| 1992 |
Juvenile Justice Reform, L. Mara Dodge(
Authored Entry
) ...Chicago's juvenile justice system serves three distinct categories of children: delinquent,...
...Fire of 1871 , convicted boys were sent to the Chicago Reform School. After the fire destroyed the...
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| 1993 |
Morton Arboretum, Riva Feshbach(
Authored Entry
) ...including the study of trees in the urban environment and the ecology of the Chicago region....
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| 1994 |
Corn Products Refining Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...offices of the company finally came to the Chicago area when Corn Products International Inc. was...
...but its main manufacturing operation was located just outside Chicago. In 1910, Corn Products built...
...a new $5 million plant at Summit, southwest of Chicago; the site of the plant was known as Argo, and...
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| 1995 |
Dominick's Finer Foods Inc., (
Business Dictionary
) ...Dominick's remained a leading grocery chain in the Chicago area and was still one of the area's top...
...This retail grocery business was founded in Chicago by Dominick DiMatteo, who was eventually...
...1970s, the Dominick's chain employed about 6,000 Chicago-area residents. In 1981, when there were 71...
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| 1996 |
Goldblatt Bros. Inc., (
Business Dictionary
) ...1905, Simon and Hannah Goldblatt moved with their children from Poland to Chicago. In 1914, two of...
...Maurice and Nathan Goldblatt, opened a store at Chicago and Ashland Avenues, in a neighborhood that...
...in annual sales, and owned five stores in Chicago, as well as stores in nearby Joliet, and Hammond,...
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| 1997 |
Platinum Technology Inc., (
Business Dictionary
) ...the harbinger of a burgeoning Internet industry in Chicago, quickly sank along with the rest of the...
...was one of the fastest-growing firms in the Chicago area during the 1990s. The company began by...
...around the country, including 1,500 in the Chicago area. In 1999, Platinum was purchased for $3.5...
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| 1998 |
Playskool Inc., (
Business Dictionary
) ...of Milton Bradley, renovated its plant on Chicago's Northwest Side, where it employed over 1,200...
...Inc. of Rhode Island. Much to the dismay of Chicago residents, who had recently helped to finance...
...early 1930s, the enterprise was purchased by a Chicago company, which changed its name to Playskool...
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| 1999 |
Sidley & Austin, (
Business Dictionary
) ...firm traced its roots to Williams & Thompson, a Chicago firm founded in 1866 by Norman Williams and...
...the firm's list of clients included many of Chicago's largest businesses, including Pullman, Western...
...One First National Plaza, a new skyscraper in Chicago's Loop. A 1972 merger with Liebman, Williams,...
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| 2000 |
United Biscuit Co. of America, (
Business Dictionary
) ...merger of several cracker bakeries around the Midwest, including the Sawyer Biscuit Co. of Chicago....
...United Biscuit made its headquarters in Chicago, which was also the location...
...of its packaging materials division, the Chicago Carton Co. During the mid-1930s, the Sawyer bakery...
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