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Hoover's Profile: Fort Dearborn Company
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Fort Dearborn Company
1530 Morse Ave.
Elk Grove, IL 60007
IL Tel. 847-357-9500
Fax 847-357-8726

Type: Private
On the web: http://www.fortdearborn.com

Fort Dearborn's forté is in packaging labels. Named for the outpost that predated Chicago, Fort Dearborn is one of the country's largest producers of labels for consumer goods packaging. It offers cut-and-stack, pressure-sensitive, and shrink-sleeve labels, as well as printing and fulfillment services through about a dozen facilities in the US. Although it serves more than 1,000 clients, Fort Dearborn generates most of its revenue from major brands, such as ConAgra (Peter Pan and Hunt's brands), Unilever (Dove and Hellmann's brands), Kraft Foods, and Campbell Soup. Established in 1925, the company is owned by investment firm Genstar Capital.

Officers:
President and CEO: Michael (Mike) Anderson
SVP Operations: Bill Johnstone
CFO: Timothy Trahey

Competitors:
Convergent Label Technology
Multi-Color Corporation
Schawk

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US History Encyclopedia: Fort Dearborn
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Chicago, long recognized as a center of control for the region between Lake Michigan and the Mississippi River, proved vital to U.S. military supremacy in the Ohio and Mississippi Valleys. As part of a the campaign to oust the British and their Indian allies from the northwestern territories, an army led by Gen. Anthony Wayne forced twelve Native American tribes to sign the Greenville Treaty in August 1795. The treaty exacted the cession of a tract six miles square at Chicago to serve as the site for a future fort, established in 1803 and named after secretary of war Gen. Henry Dearborn. With the outbreak of the War of 1812, the troops and civilians stationed at Fort Dearborn and led by Capt. Nathan Heald were massacred by Native Americans on 15 August while evacuating to Fort Wayne, and the fort was abandoned.

On 4 July 1816, troops reoccupied Chicago and built a second Fort Dearborn. From 1823 until 1832, the fort was alternately abandoned and then garrisoned when new Indian trouble flared. Occupied periods included 1828 to support the government's campaign against the Winnebago Indians, and 1832 at the outbreak of the Black Hawk War. The development of modern Chicago began in 1833. By 1836, the original Native American occupants of Chicago had been defeated, relocated, or killed, and Fort Dearborn was again, and finally, evacuated. Its military reservation was transformed into Grant Park, the front door to the Chicago Loop.

Bibliography

Cronon, William. Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West. New York: Norton, 1991.

Quaife, Milo M. Chicago and the Old Northwest, 1673–1835: A Study of the Evolution of the Northwestern Frontier, Together with a History of Fort Dearborn. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1913.

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Columbia Encyclopedia: Fort Dearborn
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Fort Dearborn, U.S. army post on the Chicago River, NE Ill.; est. 1803 and named for Secretary of War Henry Dearborn. Threatened by the indigenous population at the start of the War of 1812, the frontier post was ordered by Gen. William Hull to evacuate. On Aug. 15, 1812, as Capt. Nathan Heald led the small contingent of troops, militia, women, and children from the fort, a large Native American force attacked. More than half of the people were killed and most of those remaining were taken prisoner; the fort was destroyed. Fort Dearborn was rebuilt in 1816-17.

Wikipedia: Fort Dearborn
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Not to be confused with the former Fort Dearborn, now Odiorne Point State Park in New Hampshire.
Fort Dearborn Massacre Monument

Fort Dearborn, named in honor of Henry Dearborn, was a United States fort built on the Chicago River in 1803 by troops under Captain John Whistler. It was on the site of the present-day city of Chicago. The site of the fort is a Chicago Landmark and part of the Michigan–Wacker Historic District.

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Early history

In 1810, when Whistler was recalled to Detroit, Michigan, he was succeeded by Captain Nathan Heald. It was located at what is now the intersection of Wacker Drive and Michigan Avenue in the Loop community area of Chicago at the foot of the Magnificent Mile.

During the War of 1812, General William Hull ordered the evacuation of Fort Dearborn in August 1812. Heald oversaw the evacuation, but on August 15 the evacuees were ambushed by about 500 Potawatomi Indians in the Fort Dearborn Massacre. The Potawatomi captured Heald and his wife, Rebekah, and ransomed them to the British. Of the 148 soldiers, women and children who evacuated the fort, 86 were killed in the ambush. The Potawatomi burned the fort to the ground the next day. Following the war, a second Fort Dearborn was built in 1816. This fort consisted of a double wall of wooden palisade, officer and enlisted barracks, a garden, and other buildings.

Alexander Beaubien

Alexander Beaubien was said to have been the first child of European ancestry born in Chicago. His mother was Jo­sette La Framboise, herself half Native American, and his father was Jean Baptiste Beaubien, an agent of John Jacob Astor, who bought furs from the natives. The boy was born in Fort Dearborn on January 28, 1822. He saw Chicago grow to become the second largest city in the country before dying on March 25, 1907, after a long illness.[1]

Later years and legacy

The American forces garrisoned the fort until 1823, when peace with the Indians led the garrison to be deemed redundant. This temporary abandonment lasted until 1828, when it was regarrisoned following the outbreak of war with the Winnebago Indians. Closed briefly before the Black Hawk War of 1832, part of the fort was demolished to make way for a new channel for the Chicago River. By 1837, the fort was being used by the Superintendent of Harbor Works.

In 1857, a fire destroyed nearly all the remaining buildings in the fort. The forts tower bell was rescued from the remains by Police Constable Jacob Schoenewald and donated for use in the bell tower of St. Joseph's Catholic Church during its construction in 1864.[citation needed] The blockhouse and the few surviving outbuildings were destroyed in the Great Chicago Fire of 1871.

Part of the fort outline is marked by plaques and a line embedded in the sidewalk and road near the Michigan Avenue Bridge and Wacker Drive. A few boards from the old fort were retained and are now in the Chicago History Museum in Lincoln Park.

Also in 1933, at the Century of Progress Exhibition, a detailed replica of Fort Dearborn was erected as a fair exhibit.[2] As part of the celebration both a United States postage stamp and souvenir sheet (containing 25 of the stamps) were issued showing the fort.

In 1939, the Chicago City Council added a fourth star to the city flag to represent Fort Dearborn. This star is depicted as the left-most, or first, star of the flag.[3]

The site of the fort was designated a Chicago Landmark on September 15, 1971.[4]

Gallery

a sculpture on Michigan Ave. Bridge commemorates the Fort Dearborn Massacre

the same bridge at daytime

The inscription under the bridge

Chicago Landmark plaque

Sidewalk marker

References

  1. ^ Chicago's First Born Dead. New York: The New York Times. 1907-03-26. http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?_r=1&res=9A05E4DE1F3AE133A25755C2A9659C946697D6CF&oref=slogin. 
  2. ^ Lohr, Lenox R. (1952). "Fair Management. The Story of a Century of Progress". The Cuneo Press. 
  3. ^ "Municipal Flag of Chicago". Chicago Public Library. 2009. http://www.chipublib.org/cplbooksmovies/cplarchive/symbols/flag.php. Retrieved 2009-03-04. 
  4. ^ "Site of Fort Dearborn". City of Chicago Department of Planning and Development, Landmarks Division. 2003. http://www.ci.chi.il.us/Landmarks/S/SiteFtDearborn.html. Retrieved 2007-05-14. 
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