WOW.com Web Search

Search results

1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network

2. Chicago Assembly Plant - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Assembly_Plant

   Chicago Assembly Plant. Coordinates: 41°39′43″N 87°33′39″W. Chicago Assembly Plant (sometimes referred to as Torrence Avenue Assembly) is Ford Motor Company 's oldest continuously operated automobile manufacturing plant. It is located at E. 130th Street and Torrence Avenue in the Hegewisch neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois, US.

3. Museum of Science and Industry (Chicago) - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museum_of_Science_and...

   The Museum of Science and Industry ( MSI) is a science museum located in Chicago, Illinois, in Jackson Park, in the Hyde Park neighborhood between Lake Michigan and The University of Chicago. It is housed in the Palace of Fine Arts from the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition. Initially endowed by Julius Rosenwald, the Sears, Roebuck and Company ...

4. Nickey Chevrolet - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nickey_Chevrolet

   Defunct. 1973. Headquarters. Chicago. , USA. Nickey Chevrolet (also called Nickey Chicago) was a Chevrolet automobile dealership located in Chicago, Illinois, USA. Founded in 1925 by brothers E.J. and Jack Stephani, Nickey Chevrolet became one of the largest factory dealerships, specializing in high performance muscle car sales and services. [1]

5. Chicago Times-Herald race - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Times-Herald_race

   On July 10, 1895, the Chicago Times-Herald announced a race to be held in the city, prizes totaling $5,000 (approximately $183,100 in 2023). The promotion was an attempt to foster the growth of the young auto industry in the United States and to boost newspaper sales. The first automobiles in the nation were produced only two years earlier, and ...

6. Timeline of Chicago history - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Chicago_history

   All Star Tournament, 18 Inch Balke Line, Chicago, May 7–14, 1906 Jewish men and boys standing on a sidewalk in Chicago, 1903 Theodore Roosevelt in Chicago, 1915 During construction, 1915 (Chicago Daily News) 1915 July 24, the SS Eastland Disaster. Chicago Municipal Tuberculosis Sanitarium founded. 1916 Rebuilding of the American Fort; Navy ...

7. Woods Motor Vehicle - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woods_Motor_Vehicle

   Woods Motor Vehicle Company was an American manufacturer of electric automobiles in Chicago, Illinois, between 1899 [2] and 1916. In 1915 they produced the Dual Power (U.S. Patent # 1244045) with both electric and internal combustion engines which continued until 1918. The company was started by Clinton Edgar Woods who literally "wrote the ...

8. Nyberg Automobile - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyberg_Automobile

   History. Henry Nyberg was born in 1872 in Hellvi on Gotland island, Sweden. He graduated from the Technical School in Malmo, and emigrated to the United States via Canada shortly thereafter. He built his first automobile in 1898 and established Nyberg Automobile Works in 1899. He lived in Kenosha, Wisconsin until 1902, and did work for Thomas B ...

9. Chicago Auto Show - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Auto_Show

   2020. The 2020 Chicago Auto Show was held from February 8 through February 17, with press preview starting on February 6 and the "First Look For Charity" Gala taking place on February 7. [40] The 2020 event concluded before government responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in Illinois took effect.