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The Wrigley Building is a skyscraper located at 400–410 North Michigan Avenue on Chicago's Near North Side. It is located on the Magnificent Mile directly across Michigan Avenue from the Tribune Tower. Its two towers in an elaborate style were built between 1920 and 1924 to house the corporate headquarters of the Wrigley Company.
The company was founded on April 1, 1891, in Chicago, Illinois by William Wrigley Jr. Wrigley's gum was traditionally made out of chicle, sourced largely from Central America. In 1952, in response to Decree 900 , land reforms attempting to end feudal working conditions for peasant farmers in Guatemala , Wrigley's discontinued purchasing chicle ...
Wrigley Field shares its name with the Wrigley Company, as the park was named for its then-owner William Wrigley Jr., the company's CEO. As early as the 1920s, before the park became officially known as Wrigley Field, the scoreboard was topped by the elf-like "Doublemint Twins", posed as a pitcher and a batter. There were also ads painted on ...
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The Dairy Farm Products Company opened its plant in the building on October 17, 1912, manufacturing butter. [12] In 1916, the building was sold to William Wrigley Jr. for approximately $125,000. [13] [14] The building would house the factory and offices of the Downey-Farrell Company, a margarine manufacturer that Wrigley was affiliated with.
Theurrer-Wrigley House, also known as the Wrigley Mansion, is a historic building located in the Lincoln Park area of Chicago, United States. The Italian Renaissance-style mansion was commissioned by Joseph Theurer, then-owner of the Schoenhofen Brewing Company , and purchased in 1911 by Chicago's Wrigley family.
Wrigley Jr. was inducted into the Junior Achievement U.S. Business Hall of Fame in 2000. [13] His great-grandson, William Wrigley Jr. II, was the executive chairman and CEO of the Wrigley Company from 1999 until 2006, when he turned it over to William Perez, the first non-Wrigley head of the company. [14] [15]
Mars Wrigley is closing a nearly century-old chocolate plant on Chicago’s West Side once hailed as the most beautiful candy factory in America. Built in a Spanish-style architecture in 1928, the ...