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  2. Victory Auto Wreckers - Wikipedia

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    Victory Auto Wreckers was an auto salvage yard in Bensenville, Illinois, near Chicago's O'Hare International Airport. It is well known in the Chicago area for its former television commercial, in which a young man struggles with a car door that has just detached from its hinges. The commercial aired with limited changes from 1985 to 2015 ...

  3. Northwestern Steel and Wire - Wikipedia

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    Northwestern Steel used steam locomotives to move scrap metal to the furnaces and to transfer hot ingots to the rolling machines, long after the era of steam engines was bygone in the broader culture. The company usually bought second-hand switchers from railroads such as the Illinois Central. The engines used in the mill weren't graceful or ...

  4. JC Whitney - Wikipedia

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    JC Whitney began in 1915 as The Warshawsky Company, a scrap metal yard on the South Side of Chicago. The company's founder was Lithuanian immigrant Israel Warshawsky. Throughout World War I, Warshawsky bought failed auto manufacturers and added new parts to his inventory. The Warshawky Company continued to grow, even during the Great Depression ...

  5. Metal Management - Wikipedia

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    Metal Management was a metal recycling company, founded in 1983 and re-incorporated in Delaware, USA, in June 1986.Originally known as General Parametrics, Metal Management entered the scrap metal recycling industry on April 11, 1996, through its merger with EMCO Recycling Corp.

  6. South Works - Wikipedia

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    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] By 1901, the company was under the control of US Steel. [1] By 1951, the South Works boasted 11 blast furnaces, 8 electric furnaces, and 12 rolling mills, and employed some 15,000 employees. [2]

  7. Ulbrich (company) - Wikipedia

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    Ulbrich was founded in 1924 by Frederick Christian Ulbrich Sr. as The Fred Ulbrich Company, in Wallingford, Connecticut.Ulbrich was originally a scrap yard, but gradually expanded and pivoted to stainless steel in 1936 after a merger between two corporations that prevented Ulbrich Sr. from selling to one of his top buyers. 1937 saw the creation of Victory Cutlery Company, a now defunct ...

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  9. Joliet Iron and Steel Works - Wikipedia

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    Bordering the Iron Works is the Illinois and Michigan Canal and attached I & M Canal Trail. [14] The site is also an access point for the 12.5-mile (20.1 km) I&M Canal Trail/Centennial Trail. This trail, of which portions are paved or crushed limestone, connects Joliet's City Center to the Centennial Trail in Cook County, Illinois.

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