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Dick Tracy, Dick Locher(
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) ...strip, “Plainclothes Tracy,” to enthusiastic Chicago Tribune editor Joseph Patterson. Renamed “Dick...
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DuPage River, David M. Solzman(
Authored Entry
) ...one of the most rapidly developing areas in the Chicago region. This sprawling development tends to...
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| 2113 |
Eastland, George W. Hilton(
Authored Entry
) ...for Michigan City , Indiana, capsized into the Chicago River on July 24, 1915, killing a reported...
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| 2114 |
Federal Writers' Project, Carlo Rotella(
Authored Entry
) ...The Illinois Writers' Project, based in downtown Chicago, distinguished itself as one of the most...
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| 2115 |
Angel Guardian Orphanage, Paula F. Pfeffer(
Authored Entry
) ...the largest residential child care homes in Chicago. Initially, the Poor Handmaids of Jesus Christ...
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| 2116 |
Gray Wolves, Maureen A. Flanagan(
Authored Entry
) ...The 1890s Chicago City Council was notorious for corrupt political practices orchestrated by a...
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| 2117 |
Humboldt Park, Max Grinnell(
Authored Entry
) ...Park began life as North Park in the 1860s on Chicago's Northwest Side as a tract of relatively flat...
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| 2118 |
Institute of Design, Stephen Daiter(
Authored Entry
) ...The landmark Chicago institution consecutively known as the New Bauhaus (1937–1938), the School of...
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| 2119 |
Jackson Park, David M. Solzman(
Authored Entry
) ...located south of 57th Street by Lake Michigan on Chicago's South Side , is the third largest of the...
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| 2120 |
Metropolitan Housing Development Corporation (MHDC) v. Arlington Heights, F. Willis Caruso(
Authored Entry
) ...to build affordable open housing throughout the Chicago area and other parts of the country. In 1970...
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| 2121 |
Jewish Community Centers, Gerald R. Gems(
Authored Entry
) ...and Reform rabbis supported the founding of the Chicago Hebrew Institute (CHI), whose extensive...
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| 2122 |
Madonna Center, Deborah Ann Skok(
Authored Entry
) ...Catholic mission to Italian immigrants on Chicago's Near West Side . Its original name was Guardian...
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| 2123 |
Moody Bible Institute, James Gilbert(
Authored Entry
) ...to work among the “neglected masses of Chicago. ” Founded during the city's most dynamic period of...
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| 2124 |
Poetry Slam, Marc Smith(
Authored Entry
) ...The term “poetry slam” was coined by Chicago native Marc Smith to describe the cabaret-style poetry...
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| 2125 |
Fuller (George A.) Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...This construction company was founded in Chicago in 1882 as Clark & Fuller by C. E. Clark and George...
...the world's first skyscrapers going up around Chicago. By 1890, when Fuller's company became one of...
...among the many structures the company built in Chicago were the Marquette, Pontiac, and Rand-McNally...
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| 2126 |
Grainger (W. W.) Inc., (
Business Dictionary
) ...company employed about 2,500 people in the Chicago area and another 14,000 in other parts of North...
...motor wholesaling business on West Cermak Avenue in Chicago in 1927. Along with his sister Margaret,...
...by this time, it employed about 700 people in the Chicago area. By the end of the 1990s, when its...
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| 2127 |
Hibbard, Spencer, Bartlett & Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...next to State Street Bridge in downtown Chicago. In 1932, the company introduced a new line of hand...
...hardware dealership was the descendant of a Chicago store called Tuttle, Hibbard & Co. , which took...
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Quill Corp., (
Business Dictionary
) ...office supply business was founded in 1956 on Chicago's North Side by Jack Miller, who was joined in...
...moved to the Irving Park neighborhood in western Chicago in 1960; during the 1970s it would relocate...
...Inc. , Quill employed about 1,200 people in the Chicago area. Under new ownership, Quill kept its...
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Tootsie Roll Industries Inc., (
Business Dictionary
) ...400 million and about 1,700 employees in the Chicago area by the end of the decade, when sales began...
...Tootsie Roll opened a large factory in the Ford City industrial park in southwest Chicago. Soon, all...
...the company's operations were centralized in Chicago, where it employed about 900 people by the mid-...
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Union Stock Yard & Transit Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...company, which ran the huge stockyards that made Chicago the center of the American meat industry...
...was organized during the Civil War by a group of Chicago meatpackers and railroad executives that...
...the Union Stock Yard—a 320-acre facility on Chicago's South Side—was opened. For many years, Union...
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