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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]
1973 Chicago construction strike: 1973 Chicago, IL: 95,000 [27] 1950 Chrysler strike: 1950 - 90,000 [47] 1952 Oil workers strike: 1952 nationwide 85,700 [48] [49] 1974 US textile workers strike: 1974 nationwide 85,000 Verizon Strike: 2000 nationwide 83,000 1948 US Meatpacking strike [50] [51] 1948 nationwide 80,000 (~) [52] 1994 US truckers ...
The Sheet Metal Workers' International Association (SMWIA) was a trade union of skilled metal workers who perform architectural sheet metal work, fabricate and install heating and air conditioning work, shipbuilding, appliance construction, heater and boiler construction, precision and specialty parts manufacture, and a variety of other jobs involving sheet metal.
The South Works site has been vacant since 1992, when Pittsburgh-based U.S. Steel closed its plants. September 15, 2010 Chicago Plan Commission approved the project . Chicago Lakeside Development, LLC a joint venture between McCaffery Interests and United States Steel Corporation are developing the development.
In 1945, US Steel was Chicago's largest single employer, with 18,000 workers at the company's South Works. [21] Massive amounts of goods passed through Chicago from places in the Mississippi Valley such as St. Louis, Missouri. Grain was stored in Chicago, and people began buying contracts on it.
CB&I was founded by Horace E. Horton of Rochester, Minnesota when he moved to Chicago, Illinois, USA in 1889.While initially involved in bridge design and construction, CB&I turned its focus to bulk liquid storage in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, coinciding with the western expansion of railroads across the United States and the discovery of oil in the Southwest.
A 53-year-old man died Friday while working on the setup of the track used for NASCAR’s street races in downtown Chicago this weekend. Per WGN, the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office ...
The Iron Workers had successfully repelled the open shop demands of American Bridge Company (or "Ambridge"), an arm of the United States Steel Corporation, in 1903. In 1905, after the union's collective bargaining agreement with Ambridge had expired, Ambridge and the other members of the National Erectors Association began refusing to hire ...