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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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| 2211 |
Mandel Bros., (
Business Dictionary
) ...retail enterprise, which would become one of Chicago's leading department stores, was founded in...
...Purchasing in New York and Paris and selling in Chicago, the enterprise grew. By the 1880s, its new...
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| 2212 |
Morris (Nelson) & Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...German-born Nelson Morris arrived in Chicago in 1854 and found work with meatpacker John B. Sherman....
...sales were about $11 million. Like other leading Chicago packers such as Swift and Armour, Morris's...
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| 2213 |
ServiceMaster Industries Inc., (
Business Dictionary
) ...company had annual revenues of $3.6 billion and employed about 2,500 workers in the Chicago area....
...ServiceMaster had about 600 employees in the Chicago area. The company diversified in the 1980s and...
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| 2214 |
Cleveland, San Francisco, and Manila, (
Interpretive Digital Essay (Gallery)
) ...description to major portions of what Burnham recommended for Chicago. Illustration 2889 3683...
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| 2215 |
Millennial Homage, (
Interpretive Digital Essay (Gallery)
) ...the mid-1950s. Photographer: Unknown Source: Chicago Historical Society (ICHi-03394) Illustration...
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| 2216 |
Embracing / Rejecting the Grid, (
Historical Source
) ...central place." For the college and accompanying town, they searched out a site on the city's North...
...Louis, and Rock Island, Illinois, laid out the town in 1857. His design for Lake Forest echoes the...
...portions of the city independently. As in Chicago, the added areas fit easily into the existing...
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| 2217 |
Schoenhofen (Peter) Brewing Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...of the 1970s, there was nothing left of its Chicago operations, although Dewery's reintroduced the...
...Peter Schoenhofen, a Prussian immigrant, was in Chicago working in the brewing trade by the 1850s....
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Embracing / Rejecting the Grid, Page 2, (
Historical Source
) ...Cemeteries ; Metropolitan Growth ; Streets and Highways 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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Incorporation, (
Historical Source
) ...four years after it had been incorporated as a town, the Chicago Democrat met public interest in the...
...granted a charter for Little Fort to become a town in 1849. The charter included a provision that...
...Metropolitan Growth The Electronic Encyclopedia of Chicago © 2005 Chicago Historical Society. The...
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Case Study: Fort Dearborn, Page 2, (
Historical Source
) ...1933 Photographer: Kaufmann & Fabry Co. Source: Chicago Historical Society (ICHi-37957) Visitors to...
...Century of Progress Exposition could measure Chicago's progress by walking through a replica of Fort...
...of the world, visitors could engage Chicago's history by becoming tourists of a reconstruction of a...
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