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Illinois Bell Telephone Company, LLC is the Bell Operating Company serving Illinois. It is owned by AT&T through AT&T Teleholdings, formerly Ameritech . Their headquarters are at 225 West Randolph St., Chicago, IL.
Thanks to Reuben Benjamin’s great-grandson Jeff Benjamin, who reached out to the Made In Chicago Museum in 2021, we have a rare high resolution photo depicting the full workforce of the Benjamin Electric Company gathered outside the Sangamon Street plant in 1919.
Illinois Bell Telephone Company is the legal name of what has generally been known as Ameritech Illinois since 1993. The firm is the largest provider of local telephone service in the state, and recently has been at the forefront of new technologies such as fiber optics and digital switching.
These firms included the Chicago Telephone Company, the dominant Chicago firm at the turn of the twentieth century, and Illinois Bell, which absorbed Chicago Telephone in 1920. Both of these companies were pillars of the “Bell System,” the national telephone network that was coordinated after 1900 by American Telephone and Telegraph (AT&T).
Considering that the Bell & Howell name lives on today as little more than a zombified trademark slapped onto various infomercial gadgets, it’s easy to forget just how significant the original Chicago-based company was not only in the development of quality home movie equipment (like the handheld cameras and Filmosound projector in our collectio...
The Chicago metropolitan area – also known as "Chicagoland" – is the metropolitan area associated with the city of Chicago, Illinois, and its suburbs. With an estimated population of 9.4 million people, [3] it is the third largest metropolitan area in the United States [4] and the region most connected to the city through geographic, social, economic, and cultural ties.
Oct 9, 2013 · 1894: Bell's telephone patents expire, but the Chicago Telephone Company remains dominant despite new competition. 1899: The Illinois Telephone and Telegraph Company began building freight tunnels under the Loop, claiming the tunnels were conduits for a new automatic telephone system.
