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Happy Birthday to us! Today, Baird & Warner turns 168 (and we're feeling great).

A little-known fact about us – we actually started off in 1855 under the name L.D. Olmstead & Co. on just a quarter acre of land and a dream. In 1857, Lyman Baird joined the company, becoming partners with Olmsted in 1860. Two years later,...

As the population of Chicago's suburban communities exploded in the 1950s, so did shopping centers.  By 1950, Baird & Warner had already expanded its residential sales footprint in the suburbs with five offices: Oak Park, Winnetka, Evanston, Glen Ellyn and Park Ridge. At the same time Baird & Warner was helping buyers find a...

Before Baird & Warner was known as 'Baird & Warner,' it was Baird & Bradley. This was due to the partnership between founder Lyman Baird and fellow New Haven-ite Francis Bradley. When Bradley joined the firm, the Civil War was at its height, and Chicago was booming.

Mortgage lending was the company's main business, but soon the partners began to manage buildings in order to protec...

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