[Genma Saotome]

These businesses were all on the island and had rail service, ca. 1951.

• American Excelsior - makes extremely thin wood shavings used like foam peanuts).
  
• A.H. Ross -- Tannery
  
• American Glass
  
• American Hide & Felt
  
• American Varnish
  
• A.M. Castle =- a large steel fabrication corporation.
  
• Big Boy Lumber -- retail lumber.
  
• Berger Bros. Charcoal -- Distributors. Charcoal is still sold there (2018).
  
• Burhop Paper -- Wholesale paper bags
  
• Charles Levy -- Magazine distributor
  
• Christian Kurz -- Wholesale food distribution
  
• Combustion Engineering -- makes coal crushing machinery
  
• Drucci* Flour Warehouse
  
• Excelsior Steel Furnace
  
• Grocers Terminal -- Wholesale food distribution
  
• Hoffman-Stafford Tanning
  
• Jack McGurn's** Lamp Shades -- Lights out!
  
• Lake Shore Fuel -- Coal distributor
  
• Lissner Iron & Metal -- Scrap
  
• McNulty Bros. -- Surviving brother left Chicago to raise his family in law abiding Baltimore.
  
• MILW Freight Terminal
  
• Monarch Leather
  
• Motorola
  
• North Branch Shipyard
  
• Paper Box Factory
  
• Petoski Portland Cement
  
• Seally Mattress
  
• Sprague-Warner -- Wholesale food distribution (post war purchase of a baked goods business from Mrs. Sara Lee was a pretty good move).
  
• Thomas Paper -- Scrap paper business owned by the Chicago mob (this was a cash-only business; it's CEO was gunned down at the site, probably for for skimming. No one was ever charged).
  
• U.S. Plywood
  
• Wells Petroleum -- Fuel distribution
  
• Wiebolof -- High end Chicago department store.

* Various shippers are w/o names in the source material. I have liberally plugged in the names of well known members of the Northside Gang.
** Machine Gun McGurn, a Capone hit man, was most likely responsible for the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, killing 7 Northside mobsters.