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Later, company president Walter C. Peacock became an important figure in Chicago and Illinois sporting circles. The Peacock family sold the company to Dayton-Hudson in 1969. [ 2 ] During the 1992 American recession, the company encountered financial difficulty, entered bankruptcy and was sold to Gordon Brothers , but ultimately survived in a ...
The Kalo Shop was the "leading maker" of Arts and Crafts movement silver in Chicago. [1] The shop and affiliated Kalo Arts and Crafts Community House , a practicing school and workshop noted for silver and jewelry in nearby Park Ridge, Illinois , were founded in 1900 by a group of six young women who had trained at the Art Institute of Chicago .
The Haskell-Barker-Atwater Buildings at 20, 22 & 28 Wabash Avenue are part of the Jewelers Row District, as well as being designated Chicago Landmarks themselves. The Jewelers Row District is a historic district in the Loop community area of Chicago, Illinois in the United States .
Pomellato is an Italian jewelry company. The brand was founded by Pino Rabolini in Milan in 1967. [1] In 2013, the brand became a part of the luxury group Kering. [2] Sabina Belli has been CEO of Pomellato since 2015, and Vincenzo Castaldo creative director since 2004.
Like other European ethnic groups, people left Sweden in search of better economic opportunities during the mid-1800s. In the year 1900, Chicago was the city with the second highest number of Swedes after Stockholm, the capital of Sweden. By then, Swedes in Chicago, most of whom settled in the Andersonville neighborhood, especially in the years following the Great Chicago Fire, had founded the ...
Scandinavians in Chicago: The Origins of White Privilege in Modern America is a 2019 non-fiction history book by Erika K. Jackson, published by University of Illinois Press. The work describes how Scandinavian Americans were initially seen as not being at the top of the U.S. racial hierarchy but that this perception changed by the 1880s. [1]
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