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CHICAGO HEIGHTS, Ill. — Two fires destroyed six homes and displaced nine people in Chicago Heights overnight. The fires started just after 11 p.m. Tuesday near 15th Street and Lowe Avenue.
The water cribs in Chicago are structures built to house and protect offshore water intakes used to supply the City of Chicago with drinking water from Lake Michigan. Water is collected and transported through tunnels located close to 200 feet (61 m) beneath the lake, varying in shape from circular to oval, and ranging in diameter from 10 to 20 ...
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 the lake and the Calumet River. [1] In 1889, the facility merged with three other steel mills to form a new company called Illinois Steel, which later became part of Federal Steel. [1]
A dramatic improvement in the prospects for United States Steel (NYSE: X) being sold to a foreign buyer led to a rally in the stock on the last trading day of the year. The storied industrial ...
The steel crisis was a recession in the global steel market during the 1973–1975 recession and early 1980s recession following the post–World War II economic expansion and the 1973 oil crisis, further compounded by the 1979 oil crisis, and lasted well into the 1980s.
Shares of U.S. steel stocks U.S. Steel (NYSE: X), Cleveland Cliffs (NYSE: CLF), and Steel Dynamics (NASDAQ: STLD) were rallying on Wednesday, up 8.2%, 20.1%, and 13.8%, respectively, on the day ...
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Iron and Steel in Nineteenth-Century America, An Economic Inquiry (1964) Wall, Joseph Frazier. Andrew Carnegie (1989). ISBN 0-8229-5904-6. Warren, Kenneth, Big Steel: The First Century of the United States Steel Corporation, 1901–2001. (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2001) online review; Warren, Kenneth.