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Since the 1830s, when Chicago enjoyed a brief period of importance as a local milling center for spring wheat, the city has long been a center for the conversion of raw farm products into edible goods. [2] Since the 1880s, Chicago has also been home to firms in other areas of the food processing industry, including cereals, baked goods, and ...
Conagra was founded in September 1919 as Nebraska Consolidated Mills (NCM) by Alva Kinney. The company was a conglomerate of four grain milling companies headquartered in Grand Island, Nebraska. [1] [4] [5] The company moved its headquarters to Omaha, Nebraska, in 1922 following the purchase of Updike Mill. That year, NCM posted a profit of ...
Seppman Mill; Sheridan Flouring Mills, Inc. Silver State Flour Mill; Somerset Roller Mills; Springdale Mill Complex; St. Anthony Falls Historic District; W. R. Stafford Flour Mill and Elevator; Swany White Flour Mills
The Archer Daniels Midland Wheat Mill was a plant in Chicago's Fulton Market District. The complex included brick loft buildings, a grain elevator, and silos. [ 1 ] The oldest buildings in the complex were built in 1897 and were designed by William Carbys Zimmerman and John J. Flanders.
The long-standing mill silos dating back to the 1900s once produced roughly 35,0000 pounds of flour a day, but for the past 50 years have sat empty and abandoned.
ContiGroup Companies, Inc (CGC) was founded by Simon Fribourg in Arlon, Belgium, in 1813 as a grain-trading firm. Formerly known as Continental Grain, ContiGroup has expanded into a multinational corporation with offices and facilities in 10 countries while employing more than 13,500 people worldwide.
The facility that eventually became South Works began in 1857 under the name of the North Chicago Rolling Mill, which was located in the northern part of the city of Chicago. [1] The plant later moved to South Chicago because raw materials could be shipped in via Lake Michigan , as well as an existing labor pool and available fresh water from ...
After the center of U.S. flour milling moved to the east coast, the company's A and F Mills closed during the 1940s and 1950s. Of the 34 Minneapolis flour mills, only four are still standing on the Mississippi's west bank. [11] Of the four, the Crown Roller Mill and the Standard Mill were Northwestern mills (the A and F mills).