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Libby, McNeill, & Libby, (
Business Dictionary
) ...1930s, it employed some 9,000 people in the Chicago area. Annual sales passed $100 million during...
...the company had annual sales of close to $500 million and about 1,300 workers in the Chicago area....
...of canned meat each year. Like other large Chicago meat companies, Libby slaughtered at the Union...
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| 2062 |
Munger, Wheeler & Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...Wesley Munger and George Armour started a Chicago grain-warehousing company called Munger & Armour....
...large grain elevators next to the depot of the Chicago & North Western Railroad. When Wesley Munger...
...1.5 million barrels, were destroyed in the Chicago Fire of 1871 , but the firm rebounded. In 1880,...
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| 2063 |
S&C Electric Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...who were then employees of Commonwealth Edison, Chicago's electric utility. The company served as a...
...and grew during the 1950s. In 1961, it opened a large Chicago facility called the Conrad Laboratory....
...mid-1970s, S&C employed about 1,400 people in the Chicago area. By the early 2000s, S&C was still a...
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| 2064 |
Spalding (A. G.) Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...professionally with the Boston Red Stockings and the Chicago White Stockings during the 1870s....
...Spalding started a sporting goods business in Chicago, helped found baseball's National League, and...
...served as both player and manager of the new Chicago Club baseball team. By the 1880s, the company...
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| 2065 |
Hammond (George H.) Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...large packing house in Hammond, Indiana—the town had taken the name of its most powerful resident—...
...important and no lon ger challenged the giant Chicago packers, who acquired Hammond at the turn of...
...rivaled those located at the Union Stock Yard in Chicago. By the middle of the 1880s, when it built...
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| 2066 |
Western Electric Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...Electric effectively ceased operations under its old name. In the middle 1990s, AT&T Technologies...
...Gray and Enos Barton, moved from Cleveland to Chicago immediately after it was established. In 1872,...
...associated with one of the worst accidents in Chicago history, when the Eastland, a vessel filled...
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| 2067 |
Fansteel Inc., (
Business Dictionary
) ...but still employed over 1,000 people in the Chicago area. It remained a medium-sized company that...
...By the end of the 1990s, still based in North Chicago, the company sold about $150 million annually...
...and employed fewer than 200 people in the Chicago area....
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| 2068 |
Bigger Thomas: A Tale of Two Neighborhoods, (
Authored Entry
) ...Richard Wright came to Chicago in 1927, one of thousands of African American migrants from the...
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| 2069 |
Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies, Sarah Fenton(
Authored Entry
) ...schools and clubs then multiplying around Chicago, the college received accreditation in 1971. By...
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| 2070 |
The Co-Authors as Illustrators, (
Interpretive Digital Essay (Gallery)
) ...Source: Northwestern University Illustration 4548 2625 Burnham Plan Planning Chicago Streets and...
...Highways Plan of Chicago (Digital Essay) Winter View of Grant Park and the Proposed Harbor, Looking...
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| 2071 |
Nielsen (A. C.) Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...century, the descendant of Arthur Nielsen's small Chicago firm was a worldwide marketing information...
...ACNielsen Corp. 's American headquarters were still located in the Chicago area, in Schaumburg....
...Nielsen opened a statistical consulting firm in Chicago. During the 1930s, he added a service that...
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| 2072 |
Pure Oil Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...California. As late as the mid-1970s, about 2,200 Chicago-area residents were employed by Union Oil....
...to Pure Oil, its headquarters were moved to Chicago. From their offices in the Pure Oil building,...
...and employed more than 1,000 people in the Chicago area. In 1965, Pure Oil was purchased by the...
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| 2073 |
Ryerson (Joseph T.) & Son, (
Business Dictionary
) ...annual sales and about 1,600 employees in the Chicago area. Despite weakened market conditions, as...
...had managed to avoid major layoffs in the Chicago area, but it had become the object of considerable...
...Soon after he arrived in Chicago in 1842 as an agent for a Pittsburgh iron manufacturer, Joseph T....
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| 2074 |
Sayers Group LLC, (
Business Dictionary
) ...around $300 million, the Sayers Group was one of the Chicago's largest minority-owned firms....
...In 1984, former Chicago Bears Hall of Fame running back Gale Sayers and his...
...Sayers, founded the Sayers Group LLC in the Chicago suburb of Mount Prospect. In the beginning, the...
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| 2075 |
Carol Stream, IL, Jane S. Teague(
Authored Entry
) ...life. Daniel Kelley donated land for the Chicago & Great Western Railway, and the area around the...
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| 2076 |
Bally Manufacturing Corp., (
Business Dictionary
) ...Lion Manufacturing Corp. , a firm established in Chicago in 1931 by Raymond J. Moloney. Lion created...
...the company employed about 2,300 people in the Chicago area. Although it suffered a setback in the...
...company a few years earlier, remained based in Chicago. At the end of the 1990s, Bally Total Fitness...
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| 2077 |
Kraft Inc., (
Business Dictionary
) ...Canada, started a cheese-delivery business in Chicago in 1903. Within a few years, Kraft was...
...Corp. , which was founded in 1923 by the Chicago pharmacist Thomas H. McInnerney. By the early...
...Kraft-Phenix employed about 700 people in the Chicago area. In 1969, Kraft and National Dairy became...
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| 2078 |
Ace Hardware Corp, (
Business Dictionary
) ...Ace was created 1924 in Chicago by Richard...
...Hesse and other Chicago hardware dealers who wanted to provide a centralized purchasing organization...
...stores in all 50 states and more than 60 countries, and employed about 1,000 Chicago-area residents....
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| 2079 |
American Airlines Inc., (
Business Dictionary
) ...American Airlines has never been based in Chicago, but by the late twentieth century, it had become...
...passenger airlines, American employed about 3,500 Chicago-area residents by the early 1970s; during...
...11, 2001, American employed approximately the same number of Chicago-area employees in 2002....
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| 2080 |
Bankers Life and Casualty Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...Co. was small and nearly bankrupt when Chicago insurance salesman John D. MacArthur purchased it in...
...By the mid-1970s, the company had nearly 5,000 Chicago-area employees. In 1978, after the death of...
...a large nonprofit organization based in Chicago. In 1992, Bankers Life was acquired by Conseco Inc....
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