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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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| 2162 |
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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| 2166 |
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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| 2168 |
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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| 2170 |
Steering, Pierre deVise(
Authored Entry
) ...January 1966, Martin Luther King, Jr. , chose Chicago for a national campaign against housing bias....
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| 2171 |
Zion, IL, Wallace Best(
Authored Entry
) ...States from Australia in 1888 and settled in Chicago in 1893 near the site of the World's Columbian...
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| 2172 |
Lake Barrington, IL, Craig L. Pfannkuche(
Authored Entry
) ...populated until after World War I, when Chicago businessmen began turning farms into estates. One...
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| 2173 |
Lincolnwood, IL, Laura Milsk(
Authored Entry
) ...population grew after the establishment of a Chicago & North Western Railway station in nearby...
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| 2174 |
Oak Forest, IL, Larry A. McClellan(
Authored Entry
) ...Poor Farm in Dunning on the Northwest Side of Chicago. The facility was completed in 1910 as the Oak...
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| 2175 |
Fairbank (N. K.) & Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...over 1,000 people at the 19th Street plant in Chicago into the 1910s. In 1921, the plant was closed...
...as the successor to Smedley, Peck & Co. , a Chicago lard processor and soap maker. Using materials...
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| 2176 |
Henderson (C. M.) & Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...sales had reached $3 million, and three Chicago-area factories employed nearly 1,000 people....
...Charles M. Henderson moved from New England to Chicago in 1853, when he was 19, and joined the...
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| 2177 |
Keith Bros., (
Business Dictionary
) ...wholesaler, employing about 200 people at its Chicago headquarters, nearly 500 more at a factory in...
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| 2178 |
Waste Management Inc., (
Business Dictionary
) ...a large laboratory in Riverdale, outside of Chicago—was spun off as an independent entity in 1986....
...had its origins in the Dutch-dominated Chicago garbage business. In 1965, the U.S. Congress passed...
...of these companies was Waste Management, a Chicago-based enterprise founded in 1968 by Dean Buntrock...
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| 2179 |
The Historic Illinois & Michigan Canal Corridor in 1851, (
Map
) ...to the commercial base of many of the canal towns, and all benefited from the steady stream of farm...
...settlement in northeastern Illinois, while the canal itself spurred town growth along its route....
...Twice as many towns were founded by overzealous promoters as could ultimately survive, so half...
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| 2180 |
Baker & McKenzie, (
Business Dictionary
) ...Soon after leaving the University of Chicago Law School in 1925, Russell Baker, a native of New...
...Baker & Rice; it soon represented major Chicago companies such as Abbott Laboratories. In 1949 Baker...
...about 15 percent of whom were located in Chicago. By the end of the 1990s, the firm employed over...
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