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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. [6] 1859 McCormick Theological Seminary relocated ...
Chicago Tunnel Company; ChicagoFest; Chinaman (politics) History of Chinese Americans in Chicago; Chopin Plaza; City Club of Chicago; Coalition of Labor Union Women; Coey-Mitchell Automobile Company; Commercial Club of Chicago; Compass Players; Convention on International Civil Aviation; Patrick Henry Cronin; History of the Chicago Cubs ...
Company founder Andrew P. Johnson. The Johnson Chair Company was an American chair manufacturing company headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.The company was founded by Norwegian immigrant Andrew P. Johnson, along with partners Frederick Herhold, Anton Borgmeier, and Adolph Borgmeier, with the firm's original name being Herhold, Johnson & Borgmeier.
Clark's predecessor was the George R. Rich Manufacturing Company, founded in 1903 in Chicago, Illinois by executives of the Illinois Steel Company. [1] The company moved to Buchanan, Michigan in 1904 when that city's chamber of commerce advertised a financially sound deal with respect to industrial rent and power supply. [1]
Vogue Tyre and Rubber Co., also known as Vogue Tyre, is an American company providing custom luxury tires, wheels, and car accessories. [3] The company was founded in 1914 in Chicago, Illinois by Harry Hower and then in 1940, sold to Lloyd O. Dodson who remained its chairman [4] until his death in March 1996. [5]
John Sexton & Co. building on the corner of Illinois and Orleans, 300,000 square feet (28,000 m 2) Chicago, 1915 Sexton drivers pose with new city delivery fleet made up of all electric trucks on the west side of the Sexton Building on the corner of Illinois and Orleans Streets in the River North area of Chicago, 1924.
Marmon Group is an American industrial holding company headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.Founded by Jay Pritzker and Robert Pritzker in 1953 (as Colson Corporation), it has been held by the Berkshire Hathaway group since 2013.
Kronos Foods, Inc., is a Chicago-based company which is a foodservice manufacturer of Mediterranean food in the United States and the largest manufacturer of gyros in the world. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Kronos Foods is known for being one of the first to produce, standardize, and market gyro cones (an argument exists as to who exactly was the first to ...