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The Central Manufacturing District of Chicago is a 265-acre (1.07 km 2) area [1] of the city in which private decision makers planned the structure of the district and its internal regulation, including the provision of vital services ordinarily considered to be outside the scope of private enterprise. [2]
When a new factory was required to meet demand, Pullman was presented with an opportunity to integrate employee betterment with manufacturing efficiency. As land values were skyrocketing in the city proper, Pullman purchased 4,000 acres (1,600 ha) south of Chicago, between the Illinois Central Railroad line and Lake Calumet. He organized the ...
This is a list of Illinois companies which includes notable companies that are headquartered in Illinois, or were previously headquartered in Illinois. In general, this list does not include companies headquartered in one of the municipalities of the Chicago metropolitan area .
After George Pullman died in 1897, the Illinois Supreme Court required the company to sell the town because operating it was outside the company's charter. [5] In 1899, the town and other major portions of the South Side were annexed by the city of Chicago. Within ten years, the city sold the houses to their occupants.
Illinois City is an unincorporated community in the U.S. state of Illinois, across the Mississippi River from Muscatine, Iowa. [2] It straddles Buffalo Prairie Township and Drury Township in Rock Island County, Illinois. [3] As of 2014, a United States Post Office, ZIP Code 61259, [4] remains open at 23828 124th Avenue West.
Illinois farmers stopped planting the crop as cheaper broomcorn imported from other countries made it difficult for them to compete. Some of that cheaper product even came from Cadereyta, known as ...
Monmouth is a city in and the county seat of Warren County, Illinois, United States. [3] The population was 8,902 at the 2020 census, down from 9,444 in 2010. It is the home of Monmouth College and contains Monmouth Park, Harmon Park, North Park, Warfield Park, West Park, South Park, Garwood Park, Buster White Park and the Citizens Lake & Campground.
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