Found on Crain’s Chicago Business:
Crain’s | Coming soon to a screen near you: a documentary tracing Schwinn bike history: Schwinn, founded as Arnold, Schwinn & Co. in Chicago in 1895, served as a classic rags-to-riches-to-bankruptcy story through four generations of family ownership, while signaling the painful post-industrial transition of many Chicago firms hammered by overseas competition in the late 20th century. The book, “No Hands: The Rise and Fall of the Schwinn Bicycle Company, an American Institution,” by former Crain’s staff journalists Judith Crown and Glenn Coleman, was published in 1996.
The home at 1000 South Shore Drive was owned by a Schwinn, according to neighborhood lore.
When we moved to Gate 11, the house was owned by the Mains.
Dr. Main was the AMA’s man who approved drugs prior to the Federal Drug Administration taking over.
