Yellow’s bitterest rival was Checker Taxi—a company first created as an affiliation of independent owner-operators, which was largely controlled by a former tailor named Morris Markin and a ...

When Feldman’s grandfather, Morris Markin, who owned Checker Cab and coveted Hertz’s safety record, found out that red and lime green tied for second in the study, the colors of Chicago’s ...

The Checker Cab—an exemplar of four-wheeled Americana—owes its existence to Russian emigrant Morris Markin. Born in Smolensk in 1893, Markin immigrated to the United States in his late teens.

The 160-acre park at 5300 N. Westnedge Ave. was the former homestead of Morris Markin, for whom it is named. The late David Markin, Morris' son, dedicated the area and gifted it to the city of ...

The reason for their success (they now account for 40% of production), says Checker President Morris Markin with understandable prejudice, is that riding in many low-slung conventional cars ...

Checker Motors, today's builder and subcontractor of automotive sheetmetal body components, is still remembered as being the producer of the most recognizable taxi platform in the United States.

Known as the "Taxi Cab Company," Checker actually came into existence thanks to business mogul Morris Markin, who oversaw the company's growth from its birth as Checker Motors Corporation in 1922.

Makin Glen Park on North Westnedge Avenue in Kalamazoo, is the former homestead of Markin’s late father Morris Markin, and is named for the family patriarch. Morris Markin founded the company ...

Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle. In the late 1950s, he began working in Chicago for businesses owned by his father, the late Morris Markin. He took over Checker Motors in 1970 upon the ...