| 2001 |
United States Gypsum Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...in annual sales and employed some 1,200 Chicago-area residents. Facing almost 200,000 asbestos-...
...as wallboard and “Sheetrock” was established in Chicago in 1901. Created from a merger of several...
...the country, which included a plant in East Chicago, Indiana, mined gypsum (hydrous calcium sulfate)...
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| 2002 |
Columbian Exposition Gallery, (
Interpretive Digital Essay (Gallery)
) ...Ferris Wheel. Creator: Hermann Heinz Source: Chicago Historical Society (ICHi-27750) Illustration...
...splendor and aesthetic sophistication, which Chicago's fair supporters hoped would counter the...
...Photographer: Charles Dudley Arnold Source: Chicago Historical Society (ICHI-18013) Illustration...
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| 2003 |
Quaker Oats Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...the company employed about 1,800 people in the Chicago area, annual sales were about $1.5 billion....
...sales and had about 1,200 workers in the Chicago area and another 10,000 worldwide, the company was...
...Mill was built at 16th and Dearborn Streets in Chicago by a group of investors that included John...
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| 2004 |
Victor Adding Machine Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...still employed about 1,300 people in the Chicago area. At the end of the 1970s, Victor Comptometer...
...machines was founded in 1918 by Carl Buehler, a Chicago merchant who already owned a chain of retail...
...its main plant at on North Rockwell Street in Chicago. Albert C. Buehler, a son of the founder, led...
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| 2005 |
United Center, Daniel Greene(
Authored Entry
) ...on West Madison Avenue in 1994, replacing the Chicago Stadium as the home of the Bulls (National...
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| 2006 |
Wigwam, Theodore J. Karamanski(
Authored Entry
) ...a month entirely of wood, on Lake Street near the Chicago River. The hall was packed with more than...
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| 2007 |
WLS, Douglas Gomery(
Authored Entry
) ...headquartered on North State across from the Chicago Theater, channel 7 became most famous for its...
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| 2008 |
WMAQ, Douglas Gomery(
Authored Entry
) ...on the air in 1922, when it was owned by the Chicago Daily News. In 1929, WMAQ-AM moved to the just-...
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| 2009 |
Woodlawn Organization, The, John Hall Fish(
Authored Entry
) ...its South Side neighbor, the University of Chicago , and with the city administration, TWO developed...
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| 2010 |
Royko: What Clout Is, (
Authored Entry
) ...a definition of clout: [W]hat clout is in Chicago is political influence, as exercised through...
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| 2011 |
Chicagoland, Jack W. Fuller(
Authored Entry
) ...Robert R. McCormick, editor and publisher of the Chicago Tribune for most of the first half of the...
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| 2012 |
Purdue University Calumet, Sarah Fenton(
Authored Entry
) ...of the Illinois border and 25 miles southeast of Chicago—began offering courses to students working...
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| 2013 |
Bruce Graham on Modernism, (
Authored Entry
) ...and imperial avenues. To look for the character of Chicago, for example. This is what I would call a...
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| 2014 |
Samuel Eberly Gross's Subdivisions, Emily Clark(
Authored Entry
) ...As a real-estate developer in Chicago in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Gross...
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| 2015 |
Ardis Joan Krainik and the Lyric Opera, John von Rhein(
Authored Entry
) ...Ardis Joan Krainik followed in the tradition of Chicago's great female opera company directors, a...
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| 2016 |
Walter Dyett: Music Educator, Kathleen Zygmun(
Authored Entry
) ...the growth of jazz and black musicians in Chicago. In 1922, putting aside medical school and violin,...
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| 2017 |
Calumet Region, Janice L. Reiff(
Authored Entry
) ...the two definitions was apparent in a 1957 Chicago report that described the region as lying south...
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| 2018 |
Collar Counties, Richard D. Mariner(
Authored Entry
) ...the centrally located Cook County in the Chicago metropolitan area: DuPage County, Kane County, Lake...
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| 2019 |
Smoke-Filled Room, Christopher Thale(
Authored Entry
) ...The original smokefilled room was in Chicago's Blackstone Hotel, where, according to an enduring...
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| 2020 |
Fibber McGee and Molly, Spencer Downing(
Authored Entry
) ...NBC broadcast the weekly comedy from WMAQ -Chicago. The good-natured, disorganized McGee, named for...
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