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Expansion plans: Service Employees Union exerts its clout.
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ORGANIZED labor could be regaining some of its swagger, courtesy of Service Employees International Union.
SEIU locals took six of the 25 spots on the Business Journal's ranking of largest local labor unions. Of the union's 1.8 million members, nearly 15 percent of them work in Los Angeles County.
Topping the list is the Service Employees International Local 434B, representing nearly 105,000 home care and nursing home workers. In the third spot is SEIU Local 660, whose 45,500 workers are in private health clinics. And in fifth position is SEIU Local 99, ...
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Rehab Takes Astor House Back to Root // Designer Would Be Proud
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times
; John and Sara Stassen, restoring...the clock - way back to the Root of the home - before the turn...years ago, renowned architect John Wellborn Root designed and lived in...way Root designed it," said John Stassen. The architectural...
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The broker in today's White City.(Focus: Commercial Real Estate)
Magazine article from: Crain's Chicago Business
; ...partners Charles A. Atwood and John Wellborn Root, remain popular today with tenants...day, Marshall Field of Chicago, John Wanamaker of Philadelphia and Edward...hired by Daniel Burnham after John Wellborn Root's death in 1891.
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Rookery to reopen soon with dazzling restoration
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times
; ...cigars 1880s, Chicago architect John Wellborn Root flourished as a man of the world...disorderly blowhards weren't Root's type. He cultivated the polished life and welcomed easy mixers. Root and his partner, Daniel Burnham...
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Don't put limits on Chicago's architects
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times
; ...forlorn heap on La Salle Street), its designer, John Wellborn Root, again deserves applause. Root, a graduate civil engineer, was recently headlined...a wealth of carpenter/builders, including John Mills Van Osdel and Edward Burling. All rallied...
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The Rookery: restoration of a Chicago landmark pays respect to the architectural giants who had a hand in its exceptional design. (Reconstruction Awards)
Magazine article from: Building Design & Construction
; ...was built in 1888 by Burnham and Root, a firm headed by the famed duo Daniel H. Bumham and John Wellborn Root. Frank Lloyd Wright added his stroke...smart building." Burnham and Root designed the structure as a hollow...
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'The Devil' blends history and culture.
Newspaper article from: Spokesman-Review (Spokane, WA)
; ...discovering his skills as a draftsman, then teaming up with John Wellborn Root, that Burnham helped build a firm that would be responsible...called the world's first "skyscraper." Burhnam and Root were hired as the lead designers of the fair, putting...
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Rookery's in spotlight // La Salle Street jewel is ready to shine again
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times
; ...what architects Daniel H. Burnham, John Wellborn Root and Frank Lloyd Wright wrought when...will the aesthetics. Burnham and Root, architects who are identified as...predicts Baldwin Vice President John W. McDonald. "We're working...
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New owners plan to spend $22 million on Rookery rehab
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times
; ...identified with architectural giants Daniel Burnham, John Wellborn Root and Frank Lloyd Wright - say they will spend $21.5...architecture because of the collaboration by Burnham and Root to build it in 1888 and Wright to rehab it 17 years later...
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Rookery in talks for sale to Stein
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times
; ...million, though the asking price has not been disclosed. John Wellborn Root designed the building that was completed in 1886. He...Chicago's most noted architectural firms, Burnham & Root. Frank Lloyd Wright remodeled the central court of the...
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On the cover.(News)(Society for Savings Building)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Crain's Cleveland Business
; ...for Savings Building on Public Square is the most important remaining building in Cleveland by John Wellborn Root of the Chicago firm Burnham & Root. Erected during 1889 and 1890, the building combines elements of Gothic, Romanesque and Renaissance...
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