When Ford opened its Chicago plant in February 1924 on the banks of the Calumet River in the Hegewisch neighborhood on the city’s Southeast Side, it was the dawn of the automobile age and the mass ...
Ford's Chicago Assembly Plant has just turned one century old. The facility seems to be one steady place to work in. There are employees who have been working there for 50 years or more, and it seems ...
Designed by noted industrial architect Albert Kahn, Ford’s Chicago Assembly Plant was constructed over a year on a sprawling tract of land in the Hegewisch community at 126th Street and Torrence ...