From: ahk@chinet.com

Adam H. Kerman  wrote:
>hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:

>>The Automatic Electric Co (maker of telephone equipment) was listed as
>>being at 1033 W. Van Buren St, Chicago 7.  But later ads simply said
>>Northlake IL 60164, no street address given.

>>Would you know where the Northlake location was and if anything remains
>>there of the company?

>>Thanks.

>Here's the Encyclopedia of Chicago entry:
>http://encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/2559.html

>From a Northlake Web page:

>	Industries such as Scholle Chemical and Automatic Electric bought
>	land on the City.s western perimeter. Automatic Electric sat on a
>	portion of the old Westward Ho Golf Course, located on what is now
>	Westward Ho Drive and Golfview Drive. The golf course was one of
>	the country.s premier spots for golf. It ceased operation in 1957.

>I'm not spotting an address, but I guess that's not too far from
>Proviso Yard.

>I never saw the plant.

I found an address:

	400 N Wolf Rd
	Northlake, IL  60164

This would be north and east of Proviso Yard.

I also found two more articles about the gradual winding down of operations
at the plant:
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1990-04-24/business/900203009
_1_layoffs-ag-communication-systems-joint-venture
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1990-04-25/business/900203035
_1_gte-telephone-operations-joint-venture-ag-communication-systems

I didn't recall anything about AG Communications, a joint venture between
AT&T and GTE in 1989, apparently part of a strategy by the manufacturing
arms of both companies to consolidate and shrink manufacturing. This was
several years before AT&T spun off what became Lucent. No idea if
Lucent included any former AECO or GTE manufacturing.

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