German immigrant David H. Haeger purchased the brickyard in the late 1800s, and at one time the company was a leading manufacturer of decorative pottery in the United States. Haeger also ...

Haeger Potteries opened in 1871 and supplied bricks that helped rebuild Chicago after the Great Fire. In the early 1900s, it turned to making pottery and glazed artware. It shut down in 2016.