The Beginnings of 4100 W. Fillmore

 

In 1889, William Monroe Wright and George Rew launched the Calumet Baking Powder Company in Chicago. In 1913, the company opened a new factory in Chicago's North Lawndale community at 4100 W. Fillmore, where hundreds of people worked to manufacture the now-iconic baking product. In 1929, General Mills purchased the Calumet Baking Powder Company and began to manufacture syrup at 4100 W. Fillmore.

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When Fillmore Center partners took ownership of the building in 2023, it had sat largely vacant for more than a decade. Its location in the heart of North Lawndale made the building an ideal setting for a project to benefit residents of the community through the creation of jobs and community wealth.