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Union Stock Yards, Chicago, 1947. The Union Stock Yard & Transit Co., or The Yards, was the meatpacking district in Chicago for more than a century, starting in 1865. The district was formed by a group of railroad companies that acquired marshland and turned it into a vast centralized processing area.
The Merchandise Mart (or the Merch Mart, or the Mart) is a commercial building in downtown Chicago, Illinois.When it opened in 1930, it was the world's largest building, with 4 million square feet (372,000 m 2) of floor space.
The Union Stock Yard Gate is located on Chicago's South Side, on a plaza in the center of Exchange Avenue at its junction with Peoria Street. This position marked the principal eastern entrance to the stock yards, which occupied several hundred acres to the west. It is a limestone construction with a central main arch flanked by two smaller arches.
144 years ago, the Great Fire of Chicago took over the city, causing hundreds of millions of dollars in damages.
Dayton History [1] is an organization located in Dayton, Ohio, USA, formed in 2005 by the merger of the Montgomery County Historical Society (originally the Dayton Historical Society) and Dayton's Carillon Historical Park. The private non-profit (501c3) organization was established to acknowledge the history of Dayton, Ohio.
Chicago will face another lost decade.”--Rahm Emanuel, 1 March 2012 $7 bn Trust Project Partners 501(c)3 non-profit status $1.0 bn already committed for public building Energy Retrofit Private & Not-for-Profit Funding Sources: unions, foundations, equity, mutual, pension, sovereign funds Pioneer Private Partners, Energy Retrofit project:
The Chicago Union Stock Yards fire of 1934 was the second-most destructive fire in the city's history, after the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, in terms of property damage and buildings lost. [1] The Union Stock Yards of Chicago , Illinois in the United States were, at the time, the commercial butchering and meatpacking center of the Midwest .
CHICAGO (CBS) — Thousands of counterfeit Forever Stamps were seized at the Chicago International Mail Branch last weekend, U.S. Customs and Border Protection announced Thursday.