| 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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| 2021 |
Hobo College, Roger Bruns(
Authored Entry
) ...To the hobo population Chicago was “Big Chi,” the place where thousands of migratory workers in the...
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| 2022 |
Jane, Sara M. Evans(
Authored Entry
) ...abortion referral service in 1969 linked to a Chicago consciousness-raising group. Because abortions...
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| 2023 |
La Leche League, Lynn Y. Weiner(
Authored Entry
) ...of women established in 1956 in a Near West Chicago suburb, to promote “good mothering through...
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| 2024 |
Lexington Hotel, Jonathan J. Keyes(
Authored Entry
) ...the Lexington Hotel mirrors the fortunes of Chicago's once fashionable Near South Side . Completed...
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| 2025 |
Mr. Wizard, Kathy Peiss(
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) ...a popular science show for children, in 1951 on Chicago television station WNBQ, an NBC outlet known...
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| 2026 |
Museum of Broadcast Communications, Wallace Best(
Authored Entry
) ...Museum of Broadcast Communications moved to the Chicago Cultural Center at the corner of Washington...
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| 2027 |
Kirkland & Ellis, (
Business Dictionary
) ...was the descendant of a partnership formed in Chicago in 1908 by Stewart G. Shepard and Robert R....
...McCormick soon left to take charge of the Chicago Tribune newspaper, the family business. ) In 1915,...
...the business. Among the firm's major clients were Chicago companies such as International Harvester,...
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| 2028 |
Lettuce Entertain You Enterprises Inc., (
Business Dictionary
) ...Melman opened a restaurant in the Lincoln Park neighborhood of Chicago that he called R. J. Grunts....
...Over the next five years, Melman opened four more restaurants in the Chicago area. By the mid-1980s,...
...restaurants employed about 2,000 people in the Chicago area and annual revenues stood at about $40...
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| 2029 |
Southwest Airlines Inc., (
Business Dictionary
) ...flying in 1971. In 1985, the discount airline began to serve Chicago's Midway Airport. Although it...
...call Texas home, Southwest became an important Chicago airline in the early 1990s, when it purchased...
...By 1994, it employed about 1,200 people in the Chicago area. As the rest of the airline industry...
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| 2030 |
Dick (A. B.) Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...it was founded, A. B. Dick still called Chicago home; as a division of Nesco Inc. of Cleveland, it...
...B. Dick, who started a lumber business in Chicago in 1883, soon left that field to pioneer the...
...Dick employed about 900 people in the Chicago area. In 1949, the company moved its headquarters to...
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