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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. 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 ...

  4. 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 ...

  5. Vehicle recycling - Wikipedia

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    In this business model, cars often sit in a dedicated yard for anywhere from a few weeks to several months, and patrons can bring their own tools and remove any parts they want to buy. Once a vehicle has been in the yard for a sufficient period of time, the facility will proceed with the end-of-life vehicle scrapping and recycling process.

  6. Bensenville Yard - Wikipedia

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    Bensenville Yard is a Canadian Pacific Kansas City freight and switching yard located in Bensenville and Franklin Park, Illinois.It is located 15 miles (25 km) northwest of Chicago, below O'Hare International Airport.

  7. Wrecking yard - Wikipedia

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    A scrapyard is a recycling center that buys and sells scrap metal. Scrapyards are effectively a scrap metal brokerage. [1] They typically buy any base metal. For example, iron, steel, stainless steel, brass, copper, aluminum, zinc, nickel, and lead would all be found at a modern-day scrapyard. Scrapyards will often buy electronics, appliances ...

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  9. 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]

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