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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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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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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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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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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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| 2181 |
Hammond Organ Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...the company employed over 1,000 people in the Chicago area, it changed its name from Hammond Musical...
...$100 million, Hammond had four plants in the Chicago area and employed a total of 4,500 people...
...conglomerate owned by the Pritzker family of Chicago. By the 1990s, Hammond was owned by the Suzuki...
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| 2182 |
Hyatt Hotels Corp., (
Business Dictionary
) ...by Jay Pritzker, a member of the wealthy Chicago family descended from Nicholas Pritzker, who...
...by the Pritzker family and still based in Chicago, Hyatt and Hyatt International together operated...
...about 80,000 people around the world. In the Chicago area, the companies had about 3,500 workers....
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| 2183 |
Scholl Inc., (
Business Dictionary
) ...While most of its operations were based in Chicago, the company was incorporated in New York in...
...at its facilities on West Schiller Street in Chicago. Annual sales reached $65 million in 1967 and...
...across the country, including about 750 in the Chicago area. At the end of the 1970s, Scholl was...
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| 2184 |
U.S. Robotics Inc., (
Business Dictionary
) ...in 1976 by Casey Cowell, Stephen Muka, and three other alumni of the University of Chicago. From...
...its first headquarters on Lincoln Avenue in Chicago, the company introduced the first commercial...
...the company employed about 3,500 people at its Chicago-area plants in the suburbs of Skokie, Morton...
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| 2185 |
Kellogg Switchboard & Supply Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...In 1870, Milo G. Kellogg moved to Chicago from New York State and began working as a design engineer...
...mid-1930s, Kellogg still employed about 400 Chicago-area residents. The company's entrance into the...
...1,000 people were employed. All of ITT Kellogg's Chicago operations were moved to Tennessee in 1962....
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| 2186 |
Continental Coffee Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...was founded in 1915 by Jacob Cohn, a 19-year-old Lithuanian immigrant. Cohn started by selling...
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| 2187 |
Admiral Corp., (
Business Dictionary
) ...of televisions manufactured at plants in Chicago. By the beginning of the 1960s, when annual...
...company employed 8,500 people, many of them Chicago-area residents. Like many American electronics...
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| 2188 |
American Can Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...1901 through the merger of dozens of plants around the country, including some in the Chicago area....
...Although it was not headquartered in Chicago, American Can became an important actor in the local...
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| 2189 |
Anixter Bros. Inc., (
Business Dictionary
) ...Corp. , a large holding company controlled by Chicago financier Sam Zell. Itel soon sold many of its...
...1990s, Anixter sold close to $3 billion annually and employed about 1,000 Chicago-area residents....
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| 2190 |
Commerce Clearing House, Inc., (
Business Dictionary
) ...Kix Miller started Commerce Clearing House, a Chicago-based publisher of guides to commercial and...
...1986, the company moved its headquarters from Chicago to suburban Riverwoods. Annual revenues grew...
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