At the age of 19, Russian immigrant Morris Markin came to Chicago to work as a tailor. In a short ten years, he had amassed a small fortune providing uniforms to the United States Army during World War I. He purchased Lomberg Auto Body and Commonwealth Motors of Chicago and merged the two, forming the Checker Cab Manufacturing in 1922. A year later he moved the firm to the former Dort Automobile plant in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Production of the Checker Cab would continue until 1982 and parts for other automakers until 2009 when it closed. The Checker Cab was an American icon and was hailed in every large city in the nation and beyond.
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