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Original to the 1917 flag: This star stands for the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. Its six points symbolize transportation, labor, commerce, finance, populousness, and salubrity (health). [1] [2] Original to the 1917 flag: This star symbolizes the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893. Its six points represent the virtues of religion, education ...
The company was founded in 1883 [1] in Chicago as a lumber company by Albert Blake Dick (1856 – 1934). It soon expanded into office supplies and, after licensing key autographic printing patents from Thomas Edison, became the world's largest manufacturer of mimeograph equipment (Albert Dick coined the word "mimeograph"). [3]
R.S. Owens is an awards design and manufacturing company based in Chicago, Illinois, and has been in business since 1938. The company describes itself as the "world's largest manufacturer of premier awards". [1] The company manufactures and designs custom trophies for a worldwide market.
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Date/Time Thumbnail Dimensions User Comment; current: 16:08, 8 May 2024: 720 × 480 (438 bytes): ReneeWrites: Changed size of bars and shape of stars to match those of the Chicago flag
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]
The Chicago municipal flag shall be white, with two blue bars, each taking up a sixth of its space, and set a little less than one-sixth of the way from the top and bottom of the flag, respectively. There shall be two bright red stars with sharp points, six in number, set side by side, close together, next the staff in the middle third of the ...
The current flag, featuring the state’s coat of arms on a blue background, is Michigan’s third flag design and was adopted in 1911. The proposed flag commission would accept design submissions ...