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Marmon Group Inc., (
Business Dictionary
) ...30,000 people worldwide, with over 2,500 in the Chicago area. In 2002, Robert Pritzker retired...
...spending 48 years at the company's helm in its Chicago headquarters. Soon thereafter, efforts were...
...large portions of the immense assets of what was still Chicago's largest privately held company....
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| 2032 |
Northern Trust Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...the bank employed about 3,000 people in the Chicago area, its fortunes were boosted by a new federal...
...market of the early 2000s, Northern had become Chicago's third-largest bank, with over $1.3 trillion...
...in assets under custody and over 9,300 employees worldwide and almost 6,000 in the Chicago area....
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| 2033 |
Outboard Marine Corp., (
Business Dictionary
) ...In 1882, when he was five years old, Ole Evinrude emigrated with his family from Norway to...
...second leading manufacturer of boats (the Chicago-based Brunswick Corp. was the leader), the company...
...1970s, the company had about 7,000 workers in the Chicago region, most of them in Waukegan. By the...
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| 2034 |
Searle (G. D.) & Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...continued to manage the company for several decades. Searle, which bought an old Abbott Laboratories...
...moved their operation from Omaha, Nebraska, to Chicago's North Side. After Searle died in 1917, the...
...plant in Chicago's Ravenswood neighborhood in 1925, moved its operations to nearby Skokie in 1942....
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| 2035 |
Kimball (W. W.) Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...he was 29 years old. Kimball made a living by renting pianos and selling sheet music. By the 1870s,...
...the company continued to employ hundreds of Chicago-area residents. In 1959, Kimball was purchased...
...William W. Kimball, a native of Maine, moved from Iowa to Chicago in 1857, when...
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| 2036 |
Union Tank Car Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...shipped oil from the fields of Pennsylvania to Chicago. The company was purchased by Standard Oil in...
...name to UTCC and its headquarters were moved to Chicago. In 1931, it began shipping chemicals and...
...moved into the new Union Tank Car Building in Chicago's Loop, annual sales exceeded $100 million. A...
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| 2037 |
FMC Corp., (
Business Dictionary
) ...the Windy City. As the owner of Link-Belt's old operations, FMC became a major local employer, with...
...sales of over $4 billion, FMC still called Chicago home, but only a few hundred of its some 16,000...
...soon after it purchased the Link-Belt Corp. of Chicago, FMC moved its headquarters from San Jose to...
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| 2038 |
Borg-Warner Corp., (
Business Dictionary
) ...company employed more than 5,000 people in the Chicago area, along with tens of thousands around the...
...specialist, with about $2.5 billion in annual sales and about 1,300 employees in the Chicago area....
...automobile clutch manufacturing business to Chicago. In 1928, Borg & Beck merged with three other...
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| 2039 |
Cudahy Packing Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...the company still employed about 1,000 Chicago-area residents during the mid-1930s. Following World...
...early 1860s; there they met Philip Armour, whom they followed to Chicago during the 1870s. In the...
...the Cudahys operated small packing plants in Chicago. In 1887, with Armour's backing, Michael Cudahy...
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| 2040 |
Florsheim Shoe Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...independent company with its headquarters in Chicago. By the end of the 1990s, Florsheim Shoe Group...
...sales, only about 10 percent of its some 2,000 employees worldwide worked in the Chicago area....
...In 1892 Milton Florsheim, the son of a Chicago shoemaker, started a small shoe store. Florsheim soon...
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| 2041 |
Midway Airlines Inc., (
Business Dictionary
) ...of business in 1991, Midway employed about 4,000 people in the Chicago area. A North Carolina–based...
...with the Midway name and owned by Sam Zell of Chicago appeared in 1994, filed for bankruptcy in...
...employees at its main hub at Midway Airport in Chicago. One of the first new airline companies to...
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| 2042 |
National Tea Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...the company operated about 240 stores in the Chicago area (where it had fallen behind Jewel as the...
...National Tea/George Weston suddenly abandoned the Chicago grocery market. By the end of the century,...
...area's leading enterprises and the source of groceries for a large fraction of Chicago's population....
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| 2043 |
Selz, Schwab & Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...northern Illinois, which were located in Chicago, Joliet, Genoa, and Elgin. By this time, Selz,...
...a native of Württemberg, Germany, arrived in Chicago in 1854 after working in sales for companies in...
...Selz started in the clothing business in Chicago with Selz & Cohn, but in 1871 he entered the...
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| 2044 |
Siegel, Cooper & Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...Goods Corp. with the help of J. P. Morgan. The Chicago store closed around 1930, its building soon...
...department store, located on State Street in Chicago's Loop, was established in 1887 by Henry...
...internationally recognized as one of the early “Chicago School” skyscrapers, was however not nearly...
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| 2045 |
Elgin National Watch Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...early twentieth century, Elgin had surpassed its old rival Waltham and stood as the world's greatest...
...manufacturers of timepieces, was founded in Chicago during the Civil War by a group of investors...
...mayor of the city, and John C. Adams, a Chicago watchmaker. Other founders of this new company,...
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| 2046 |
Mears, Bates & Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...concentrate on his lumber interests in Michigan; the old company became Mears & Bates, which was led...
...as a young man and was trading lumber in Chicago as early as 1838. By 1850, when his brother Nathan...
...Mears became part of C. Mears & Co. , the business was based in Chicago. In 1859, Charles Mears...
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| 2047 |
Carson Pirie Scott & Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...of the 1960s, it operated 11 stores around the Chicago region, where it employed about 8,000 people...
...This leading Chicago department store originated with a business founded in Amboy, Illinois, in 1854...
...Carson & Pirie was based on Lake Street in Chicago; during the late 1860s, annual sales (wholesale...
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| 2048 |
Encyclopaedia Britannica Inc., (
Business Dictionary
) ...Britannica employed about 1,000 people in the Chicago area. During the 1990s, the company...
...moved the general offices to New York City. Chicago's connection with the publication began in 1920,...
...later, Elkan H. “Buck” Powell, a University of Chicago graduate and Sears employee, took charge of...
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| 2049 |
Nalco Chemical Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...built a large new technical center in the Chicago suburb of Naperville. At the end of the 1990s,...
...In 1920, Herbert A. Kern founded the Chicago Chemical Co. , which sold water-treatment chemicals...
...created the National Aluminate Corp. , based in Chicago. Annual sales neared $4 million by the end...
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| 2050 |
Karpen (S.) & Bros., (
Business Dictionary
) ...and Oscar Karpen, who emigrated from Germany to Chicago in 1872, started a furniture manufacturing...
...Karpen was acquired by the Schnadig Corp. , led by Lawrence K. Schnadig of Chicago. By the end of...
...century, Schnadig was still based in the Chicago area (in suburban Des Plaines), but its plants were...
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