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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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| 2218 |
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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| 2219 |
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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| 2220 |
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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| 2221 |
Religion and Society, (
Historical Source
) ...Communism ; Iron- and Steelworkers ; Unionization ; Work 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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| 2222 |
Anderson Family Ice Fishing, 1923, Photographer: Chicago Daily News(
Historical Source
) ...Photographer: Chicago Daily News...
...The son of a U.S. Coast Guard officer...
...stationed at Chicago ice fishes with his father. Ice fishing was a leisure activity that also might...
Date Created: 1923,
Date Depicted: 1923
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| 2223 |
Allstate Corp., (
Business Dictionary
) ...Allstate employed close to 10,000 people in the Chicago area and over 40,000 nationwide. See also...
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| 2224 |
Bethlehem Steel Corp., (
Business Dictionary
) ...Bethlehem Steel came late to the Chicago area and never made its headquarters there, but it was a...
...did not operate any large mills in the Chicago region during this period. It finally arrived in...
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| 2225 |
International Minerals & Chemical Corp., (
Business Dictionary
) ...and moved its headquarters from Atlanta to Chicago. By the beginning of the 1960s, when its main...
...people around the country but only a few in the Chicago area. By the end of the 1990s, the company...
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| 2226 |
Tellabs Inc., (
Business Dictionary
) ...by Michael Birk and others in Lisle, just west of Chicago. The company started with 20 employees and...
...around the world, almost half of those in Chicago. Tellabs followed its industry downward in the...
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| 2227 |
Case Study: Fort Dearborn, (
Historical Source
) ...Wau-Bun</emph>, 1856 Artist: Unknown Source: Chicago Historical Society (ICHi-38122) The predominant...
...>Wau-Bun</emph> recounted Kinzie's experiences in Chicago from 1833 as well as Kinzie family stories...
...popular imagination of Chicagoans. See also: Chicago in the Middle Ground ; Fort Dearborn ; Literary...
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| 2228 |
Forgetting, Misremembering, and Contesting Memories, (
Historical Source
) ...Comiskey Park opened across the street from the old one in 1991, and in 2003 the name itself became...
...Kennison arrived in Chicago in the 1840s as an old man. He was a veteran of the War of 1812, but...
...established that he was approximately 85 years old when he died in 1852, Chicagoans believed he was...
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| 2229 |
Transportation and the Grid, (
Historical Source
) ...remain tied to major roads, many of which sit on old township lines. See also: Commuting ; Cook...
...1910 Publisher: McComber Directory Company Source: Chicago Historical Society (ICHi-37355) Although...
...Transportation ; Rapid Transit System ; Chicago's Rapid Transit Lines (Map) Existing and proposed...
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| 2230 |
Safety-Kleen Corp., (
Business Dictionary
) ...company was purchased by the Elgin-Based Chicago Rawhide Manufacturing Co. , then led by Donald W....
...opened a large oil-recycling plant in East Chicago, Indiana. The company's profits and rate of...
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