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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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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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| 2150 |
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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| 2151 |
Chess Records, Paul W. Petraitis(
Authored Entry
) ...Rolling Stones, and the Yardbirds. Today it is a Chicago Landmark and home to Willie Dixon's Blues...
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| 2152 |
Cook County Morgue, Christopher James Tassava(
Authored Entry
) ...Christian Fenger and his protégés had established Chicago as a world center of pathology research. )...
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| 2153 |
East Dundee, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
Authored Entry
) ...the Century of Progress Exposition in 1934 in Chicago, Haeger Potteries' exhibit included a complete...
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| 2154 |
Glendale Heights, IL, Jane S. Teague(
Authored Entry
) ...lines were established, milk was transported to Chicago for processing. The Illinois Central came...
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| 2155 |
Hull House, Mary Ann Johnson(
Authored Entry
) ...Hull House, Chicago's first and the nation's most influential settlement house , was established by...
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| 2156 |
Millennium Park, Timothy J. Gilfoyle(
Authored Entry
) ...Daniel Burnham and Edward Bennett's Plan of Chicago (1909). City officials originally estimated the...
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| 2157 |
Lincolnshire, IL, Douglas Knox(
Authored Entry
) ...is among the wealthiest communities in the Chicago metropolitan area. It is near the site of one of...
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| 2158 |
Loyola University, Br. Michael Grace, S.J.(
Authored Entry
) ...one year later, and a business school in 1922. The Chicago College of Dental Surgery merged with the...
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| 2159 |
Patronage, David Orr(
Authored Entry
) ...the basic premise of political patronage in Chicago, as well as in the state government, was that “...
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| 2160 |
Continental Illinois National Bank & Trust Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...was the product of a 1910 merger of two Chicago enterprises, the Commercial National Bank and the...
...the Continental & Commercial National Bank of Chicago, which had $175 million in deposits, making it...
...around the world, the bank employed about 8,200 Chicago-area residents, many of whom worked at...
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