New Book Examines Chicago’s Manufacturing Heritage
CHICAGO—A new book entitled Made in Chicago (Arcadia Publishing) examines the important role that manufacturing played in the history and growth of the Windy City. Written by Austin Weber, senior editor of ASSEMBLY, the book contains hundreds of never-before-published photos gathered from a wide variety of sources.
Made in Chicago: The Windy City’s Manufacturing Heritage provides a look at long-forgotten companies such as Bell & Howell, Elgin Watch, EMD, Schwinn, Stewart Warner and Zenith. It illustrates what life was like inside the assembly lines, foundries, machine shops and steel mills that employed hundreds of thousands of Chicagoans who turned out an endless array of products every day.