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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Labor Unrest in Chicago, April 25-May 4, 1886, Janice L. Reiff(
Rich Map (Essay)
) ...Workers throughout Chicago and its suburbs took part in the nationwide movement for an eight-hour...
...concentrated in industrial areas along the Chicago River and in nearby working-class neighborhoods....
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Origins of the Grid, (
Historical Source
) ...implementation. Surveyor James Thompson laid out the town for the Canal Commissioners in preparation...
...showing proposed lots) in 1830. He laid out the town with straight streets uniformly 66 feet wide (...
...See also: Government, City of Chicago ; Mapping Chicago ; Schools and Education ; Townships The...
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Bunte Bros., (
Business Dictionary
) ...started a candy manufactory on State Street in Chicago. After a few years, Ferdinand's son Theodore...
...as the 1950s, it had over 1,000 workers in its Chicago plants. In 1954, Bunte Brothers Candy Co. was...
...Chase, was created. In 1961, the firm closed the Chicago plant, dropped the Bunte name, and returned...
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Continental Can Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...T. G. Cranwell. Continental's main factories were in Chicago and Syracuse, New York, where it was...
...about 1,800 men and 1,200 women around the Chicago area. By the early 1970s, annual sales reached $2...
...one U.S. can manufacturer, with about 6,000 Chicago-area employees. In 1976, it became part of the...
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Duchossois Industries Inc., (
Business Dictionary
) ...son), still employed about 1,500 people in the Chicago area and grossed about $1 billion in annual...
...The Thrall Car Manufacturing Co. was founded in Chicago Heights in 1917. In 1946, Thrall was a small...
...sales. Richard L. Duchossois, a native of Chicago's South Side, joined the company after serving in...
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Federal Sign and Signal Corp., (
Business Dictionary
) ...company approached $1 billion in annual sales and employed about 1,500 people in the Chicago area....
...After spending a few years under the control of Chicago utilities titan Samuel Insull, the company...
...its main plant from 87th and State Streets on Chicago's South Side to Blue Island, the suburb a few...
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Mayer (Oscar) & Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...started a small sausage-making operation on Chicago's North Side. They opened a meatpacking plant in...
...company, it employed over 400 people in the Chicago area. Annual sales rose to about $275 million by...
...including many in Madison, Wisconsin, as well as Chicago. By the 1970s, the company had moved its...
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McGraw-Edison Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...a teenager in Iowa. In 1926, McGraw moved to Chicago, purchased a toaster company, and set up an...
...the company had over 1,000 workers in the Chicago area. In 1957, McGraw bought Thomas A. Edison Inc....
...the company had about 2,200 employees in the Chicago area. In 1985, McGraw-Edison was purchased by...
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Munn & Scott, (
Business Dictionary
) ...1856, Ira Y. Munn and his partners owned a large Chicago grain elevator with a capacity of 200,000...
...end of the Civil War, the company owned four Chicago grain elevators with a total capacity of 2.3...
...Munn had already served as president of the Chicago Board of Trade. Annual revenues reached about $4...
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Walgreen Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...pharmacy at Cottage Grove and Bowen Avenues on Chicago's South Side. A second Walgreen store opened...
...Walgreen employed about 10,000 people in the Chicago area, and it was the nation's leading drug...
...sales from over 3,000 stores nationwide. It employed over 14,000 people in the greater Chicago area....
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