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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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Wieboldt Stores Inc., (
Business Dictionary
) ...This retailing enterprise, which became a Chicago-area chain of department stores, was founded in...
...the Wieboldt store on Milwaukee Avenue in Chicago employed about 700 people and grossed $3 million...
...company still employed about 6,000 people in the Chicago area, but Wieboldt had trouble remaining...
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| 2142 |
Evans Food Products, (
Business Dictionary
) ...Chicago attorney Lester W. Olin entered the pork rind business in 1947 when he purchased a large oil...
...Evans was the world's top pork rind business, and one of Chicago's largest minority-owned firms....
...It employed about 100 people in Chicago and almost 150 more in its three other locations....
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| 2143 |
Flying Food Group Inc., (
Business Dictionary
) ...company sold to grocery stores. By mid-2003, the Chicago-based company had begun to grow back to its...
...With about 2,300 employees worldwide—including almost 1,000 in Chicago—and $120 million in revenues,...
...Flying Food Group was one of Chicago's largest minority-owned firms....
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Villa District, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
Authored Entry
) ...and spacing. The bungalows were designed in the “Chicago” and “California” styles with numerous...
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| 2145 |
Washington Park Subdivision, Amanda Seligman(
Authored Entry
) ...Businessmen's Association and the University of Chicago cajoled landlords in Washington Park...
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| 2146 |
Wayne, IL, Jane S. Teague(
Authored Entry
) ...by 1888, followed by the electric interurban Chicago, Aurora & Elgin Railway in 1903, which also...
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| 2147 |
Breakfast Club, Ron Grossman(
Authored Entry
) ...the freewheeling style of the golden age of Chicago broadcasting . Almost two years after its 1933...
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| 2148 |
Broadview, IL, Patricia Krone Rose(
Authored Entry
) ...Air Mail Field, the airport operated as Chicago's airmail center until 1923. Eventually this land...
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| 2149 |
Bulls, Melissa Isaacson(
Authored Entry
) ...It would seem the Chicago Bulls have been around forever. Six NBA championships create a sense of...
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Aldermanic Privilege, Christopher Thale(
Authored Entry
) ...Aldermanic privilege refers to the power of Chicago city council members (aldermen) to initiate or...
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