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 Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2011 5:07 pm Post subject: John Shorthall |
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During the 1870s, 1880s and 1890s, upper Prairie Avenue residents were central to cultural and social fabric of the city. The economy was supported by the thousands of jobs created by the Pullman Car Company and Armour and Company. Chicago's richest man, Marshall Fields changed the buying habits of the city. John Shorthall saved the property from total chaos after the Great Chicago Fire by saving property records. At one point in the 1880s, sixteen of the 60 members of the Commercial Club of Chicago lived on Prairie Avenue. George Armour headed the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts, which became the Art Institute of Chicago.[16] 1801 South Prairie resident, William Wallace Kimball, employed about 1500 people at the turn of the century in his organ and piano manufacturing company.[17] John Glessner, a founder of International Harvester, built what has been described as the centerpiece of the historic district.[4]
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