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Chess Records, Paul W. Petraitis(
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) ...Rolling Stones, and the Yardbirds. Today it is a Chicago Landmark and home to Willie Dixon's Blues...
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Cook County Morgue, Christopher James Tassava(
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) ...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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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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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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| 2161 |
Material Service Corp., Andrew W. Cohen.(
Business Dictionary
) ...limestone quarries, in Thornton, just south of Chicago. The company soon benefited from large war-...
...builders of commercial property. Among the major Chicago structures that MSC helped to build were...
...and the Civic Opera House. Friendly ties to Chicago mayors Anton Cermak and Richard J. Daley...
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Andersen (Arthur) & Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...accounting groups together employed nearly 8,500 Chicago-area residents. In the wake of the Enron...
...accounting services firm was founded in Chicago in 1913 by a young Northwestern University...
...client base rose from 2,300 to 50,000, and the Chicago office increased from about 250 to more than...
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| 2163 |
Johnson Products Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...The Johnson Products division maintained its headquarters in Chicago but adopted the L'Oreal name....
...cosmetics salesman, formed this company in Chicago in 1954. At a plant on the city's South Side,...
...that time, Johnson had about 500 employees in Chicago, and it invested in a factory in Nigeria. But...
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| 2164 |
Pettibone Mulliken Corp., (
Business Dictionary
) ...the 1970s, when the company was still based in Chicago but had few local workers, it became known as...
...It claimed revenues of nearly $130 million but did not employ a large workforce in the Chicago area....
...The company's main railroad equipment plant was on Chicago's West Side. In 1945, when most of the...
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| 2165 |
Castle (A. M.) & Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...distributor of steel products was founded in Chicago in 1890 by A. M. Castle. By the late 1920s,...
...the company employed about 500 people in the Chicago area and did about $700 million in annual...
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Horner (Henry) & Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...Henry Horner founded a grocery store in Chicago in 1842, two years after he emigrated from Bohemia....
...at Randolph and Canal Streets, was one of Chicago's earliest retail groceries; Horner started a...
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| 2167 |
Rationalization of Streets, (
Historical Source
) ...and became more so as Chicago annexed adjacent towns. In 1880 the City Council took steps toward...
...departments, and the friend visiting from out of town, remained as part of the city's official grid-...
...the area of Chicago." See also: City Club of Chicago ; Government, City of Chicago ; Street Naming...
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Round Lake Beach, IL, Craig L. Pfannkuche(
Authored Entry
) ...growth was so strong that Metra , which directs Chicago metropolitan rail commuter activity, added...
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| 2169 |
South Holland, IL, Jonathan J. Keyes(
Authored Entry
) ...gardening, supplying the burgeoning city of Chicago with fresh produce. In 1892, Dutch and German...
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Steering, Pierre deVise(
Authored Entry
) ...January 1966, Martin Luther King, Jr. , chose Chicago for a national campaign against housing bias....
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