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The Van Sweringen brothers, Mantis (left) and Oris (right) Oris Paxton Van Sweringen (April 24, 1879 – November 22, 1936) and Mantis James Van Sweringen (July 8, 1881 – December 12, 1935) were American brothers who became railroad barons in order to develop Shaker Heights, Ohio .
Pages in category "Defunct companies based in Chicago" The following 146 pages are in this category, out of 146 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The company initially built only in the Chicago area, but expanded to Colorado and Florida in the early 1970s. Poor market conditions i forced it to stop construction in Florida in 1976, and Colorado in 1986. In 1988, the company began building in Charlotte, North Carolina under the name Portrait Homes.
The Chicago metropolitan area – also known as "Chicagoland" – is the metropolitan area associated with the city of Chicago, Illinois, and its suburbs. [2] With an estimated population of 9.4 million people, [ 3 ] it is the third largest metropolitan area in the United States [ 4 ] and the region most connected to the city through geographic ...
The 300 West Adams Building (also 300 West Adams Street) is an office building in the West Loop area of Chicago, Illinois, United States.The twelve-story building was designed in the Gothic Revival architectural style, with architectural terracotta cladding.
The named partners were brothers C. Ward Rapp (1860–1926) and George L. Rapp (1878–1941), sons of a builder and natives of Carbondale, Illinois. Their Chicago practice is not to be confused with the Trinidad, Colorado practice of their brothers Isaac H. Rapp (1854–1933) and William M. Rapp (1863–1920) or the notable Cincinnati ...
Riteway Construction Services Inc. was the general contractor for Cook County Hospital. [1] His company's role with the County Hospital was controversial when Riteway missed filing its 1997 corporate annual report, leading the Illinois Secretary of State to dissolve the company on January 2, 1998 just prior to the spring 1998 groundbreaking for ...
Birgit Ridderstedt and her young dance group use a Ragnar Benson truck for a parade in 1960. Eric Ragnar Benson (born July 29, 1899 in Virestad, Älmhult, Sweden, died March 10, 1979, in Chicago) was a Swedish-American building contractor in Chicago whose firm was one of the ten largest in the United States and employed thousands.