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Article: Chicago Stock Exchange Aims High
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- December 16, 1993
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Homer Livingston means it. "We intend to make the Chicago Stock
Exchange one of the leading exchanges in the United States," he says.
"We want to be regarded in the same class as the other great
exchanges in Chicago, the Chicago Board of Trade, the Chicago
Mercantile Exchange and the Chicago Board Options Exchange."
And that's what Livingston has been pursuing since he was named
as president of the exchange a year ago.
Founded in 1882 as a center for trading the stocks and bonds -
principally those of farm equipment companies and railroads - it was
originally called the Chicago Stock Exchange. But in 1949 the name
was changed to the Midwest Stock Exchange. Seeking growth, the
governors ...