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Pacyga, Dominic A. Polish Immigrants and Industrial Chicago: Workers on the South Side, 1880–1920. (1991). 322 pp. excerpt and text search; Parot, Joseph John. Polish Catholics in Chicago, 1850-1920: A Religious History. (1982) 298 pp. Rivlin, Gary (1992). Fire on the Prairie: Chicago's Harold Washington and the Politics of Race. 426 pp.
Union Stock Yards, Chicago, 1947. The Union Stock Yard & Transit Co., or The Yards, was the meatpacking district in Chicago for more than a century, starting in 1865. The district was operated by a group of railroad companies that acquired marshland and turned it into a centralized processing area.
After the 1908 split, the Chicago IWW began to refer to itself as the Red IWW, and the Detroit group as the Yellow IWW. [51] Daniel DeLeon's followers referred to the Chicago IWW, who ultimately retained the mantle, if not the founding philosophy of the IWW, as "the bummery". [52] In 1909, the Chicago IWW reported 100 local organizations. [45]
1856: Chicago Historical Society founded. 1857 Iwan Ries & Co. Chicago's oldest family-owned business opens, still in operation today, the oldest family-owned tobacco shop. Mathias A. Klein & Sons (Klein Tools Inc.), still family owned and run today by fifth and sixth generation Klein's. Cook County Hospital opens. [1] Hyde Park House built. [5]
In Los Angeles, a large industrial tract was also promoted by the Central Manufacturing District of Chicago. [13] After changing hands several times, the Wrigley Factory at West 35th Street and South Ashland Avenue was demolished. [9] In 2014, Preservation Chicago included the Central Manufacturing District on its list of most endangered ...
The Chicago idea did not address sabotage or the general strike, though historian Paul Avrich notes that these concepts were not developed at the time. While they were related, the rise of anarcho-syndicalism owed more to 1860s/1870s European workers' councils thought and Bakunin's writings on federations of labor unions than to the Chicago ...
Forgotten Chicago is an organization that seeks to discover and document little-known elements of Chicago's infrastructure, architecture, neighborhoods, and general cityscape, existing or historical. The organization exposes many of these often-overlooked elements of Chicago's built environment to a wide audience to increase interest in their ...
Pages in category "Industrial buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in Chicago" The following 29 pages are in this category, out of 29 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.