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2. Newcomb-Macklin Company - Wikipedia

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   After twelve years in business, in 1883, McElswain sold his company to a partnership formed by the firm's bookkeeper, Charles Macklin, and John C. Newcomb. The partners relocated their business to Chicago, Illinois, where the company's production plant occupied a full city block at 400-408 N. State Street in the city's near north side.

3. Universal Statuary Corp. - Wikipedia

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   The company employed about 130 people in Chicago in the late 1980s. [5] Collectors provide a market for resale of the statues, but they are not generally valued highly in monetary terms. [6] In 1996, the company was owned by B. Paul Brueggemeier and was having to leave its factory at 850 North Ogden to make way for a town house development. [7]

4. Monuments relating to the Haymarket affair - Wikipedia

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   It was dedicated on June 25, 1893, after a march from Chicago. The inscription on the steps read, "1887", the year of the executions. Also, there is a quote attributed to Spies, recorded just before his execution by hanging: "The day will come when our silence will be more powerful than the voice you are throttling today."

5. A. C. McClurg - Wikipedia

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   A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs, McClurg, 1917. A. C. McClurg was a stationer, publisher, and book wholesaler for over 120 years in Chicago, Illinois.The business began in 1844 as Chicago's first stationery store and first retail bookstore', [1] changing hands several times, often as the result of a fire.

6. M.A. Donohue & Co. - Wikipedia

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   M.A. Donohue & Co. based in Chicago, Illinois was established in 1861, initially known as Cox and Donohue, Bookbinders. The publisher's original location was 407-429 Dearborn St. in Chicago's South Loop. The company was known for inexpensive editions of popular works of fiction. It focused on publishing sets and series of books (i.e. "libraries.")

7. Spartus - Wikipedia

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   Spartus was founded as the Utility Manufacturing Company in Chicago, Illinois, in 1934 by Jack Galter (1904–1993). [1]: 391 Galter was a Russian-born immigrant whose family first moved to Chicago, and, later, Sutton, Nebraska.

8. National Register of Historic Places listings in Chicago

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   The first sites in Chicago to be listed were four listed on October 15, 1966, when the National Register was created by the National Park Service: the settlement house Hull House, the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Frederick C. Robie House, the Lorado Taft Midway Studios, and the site of First Self-Sustaining Nuclear Reaction. The NPS first ...

9. Kroch's and Brentano's - Wikipedia

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   Kroch's and Brentano's was the largest bookstore in Chicago, and at one time it was the largest privately owned bookstore chain in the United States.The store and the chain were formed in 1954 through the merger of the separate Kroch's bookstore with the former Chicago branch of the New York-based Brentano's bookstore. [1]