| 2191 |
Harpo Productions Inc., (
Business Dictionary
) ...during the 1970s and early 1980s, arrived in Chicago in 1984. Her Oprah Winfrey Show, which started...
...and Harpo Productions had annual revenues of about $150 million with about 200 Chicago employees....
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| 2192 |
Hewitt Associates, (
Business Dictionary
) ...After a half century of astonishing growth, Chicago's largest management consulting business went...
...$2 billion. Its headquarters, located in the Chicago suburb of Lincolnshire, employed 3,400 full-...
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| 2193 |
Kent (A. E.) & Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...brother Sydney Kent, who had been working in Chicago merchant houses, founded their own meatpacking...
...more than 62,000 hogs and 14,000 cattle at its Chicago facilities. Kent continued to rank among the...
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| 2194 |
Schlesinger & Mayer, (
Business Dictionary
) ...This dry-goods merchant house was founded in Chicago in 1872 by Leopold Schlesinger and David Mayer,...
...to dramatically redesign its large downtown Chicago department store at State and Madison Streets,...
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| 2195 |
Cubs, Steven A. Riess(
Authored Entry
) ...history, but lost the World Series to the Chicago White Sox. Officially adopting the Cubs moniker in...
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| 2196 |
Studs Place, (
Historical Source
) ...Studs regales his friends with stories from his evening at the opera, while Win (who founded the Old...
...Town School of Folk Music) offers his own rendition of...
...Wagner. Creator: Studs Terkel Institution: Chicago Historical Society The Electronic Encyclopedia of...
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| 2197 |
Case Study: Jean Baptiste Point DuSable, (
Historical Source
) ...the name DuSable Museum. See also: DuSable Museum ; Mayors The Electronic Encyclopedia of Chicago ©...
...2005 Chicago Historical Society....
...The Encyclopedia of Chicago © 2004 The Newberry Library. All Rights Reserved. Portions are...
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| 2198 |
What We All Know: Icons of Memory, (
Historical Source
) ...powerful duality of beauty and horror, sunshine and shadow. See also: Crime and Chicago's Image ; If...
...Christ Came to Chicago ; Literary...
...Images of Chicago The Electronic Encyclopedia of Chicago © 2005 Chicago Historical Society. The...
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| 2199 |
Household Finance Corp., (
Business Dictionary
) ...Frank Mackey, moved from Minneapolis-St. Paul to Chicago in 1894. In 1905, Mackey's company added to...
...that had long been operated by Butler Bros. of Chicago. In 1981, Household Finance changed its name...
...International employed about 4,700 people in the Chicago area. In 2003, Household International was...
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| 2200 |
Defining Territories, (
Historical Source
) ...New Mt. Hermon M. B. Church, 1975. See also: Chicago Stadium ; Church Architecture ; Places of...
...Assembly The Electronic Encyclopedia of Chicago ©...
...2005 Chicago Historical Society. The Encyclopedia of Chicago © 2004 The Newberry Library. All Rights...
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| 2201 |
Annexation, (
Historical Source
) ...square-mile section at the southeast corner of the Town of Jefferson petitioned to be annexed to the...
...joined the city in the great annexations of 1889. Town of Jefferson Annexation Petition, 1886. See...
...View, Jefferson, and Hyde Park, as well as the Town of Lake. The existing municipal governments in...
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| 2202 |
Institutions of Memory, (
Historical Source
) ...Library (+F 896055.05) As historical artifacts, old newspapers can convey some aspects of the past...
...also: Agriculture ; Aurora, IL ; Fox River ; Newspapers ; Newspapers, Outside Chicago (Table) The...
...Electronic Encyclopedia of Chicago © 2005 Chicago Historical Society. The Encyclopedia of Chicago ©...
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| 2203 |
Alberto-Culver Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...Blaine Culver and moved it from Los Angeles to Chicago. Before the move, Alberto-Culver already had...
...in annual sales and employed about 1,400 people in the Chicago area and almost 17,000 worldwide....
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| 2204 |
Cracker Jack Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...F. W. Rueckheim emigrated from Germany to Chicago in 1869. In 1872, Rueckheim and his brother Louis...
...the 1950s, the company employed over 1,000 Chicago-area residents. During the last decades of the...
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| 2205 |
Donnelley (R. R.) & Sons Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...veteran of the printing and publishing business in Chicago, started his own printing company, R. R....
...largest commercial printer. Of its some 34,000 employees, about 2,500 worked in the Chicago area....
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| 2206 |
Ekco Products Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...the company built a large new factory on Chicago's Northwest Side. In 1945, led by Arthur Katzinger,...
...the beginning of the 1960s, still based in Chicago, Ekco employed about 6,000 people and did about $...
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| 2207 |
Fair, The, (
Business Dictionary
) ...and Skokie. In 1957, the Fair was purchased by Montgomery Ward, a larger Chicago-based competitor....
...Founded in 1875 by Ernest J. Lehmann as a small Chicago retail shop, the Fair soon became a giant...
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| 2208 |
Hall (W. F.) Printing Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...native who worked as a journeyman printer in Chicago during the 1880s, founded his own printing...
...printer, with about 5,000 employees in the Chicago area and over $100 million in annual revenues. In...
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| 2209 |
Hand (Peter) Brewing Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...the Peter Hand Brewery closed in 1978, there was not a single brewery left in the city of Chicago....
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| 2210 |
Kemper Corp., (
Business Dictionary
) ...million, the company moved its headquarters from Chicago to suburban Long Grove and became part of...
...2000s, laying off thousands of employees in Chicago and nationwide and, in 2003, selling off its...
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