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2. Chicago Assembly Plant - Wikipedia

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   Chicago Assembly Plant. Coordinates: 41°39′43″N 87°33′39″W. Chicago Assembly Plant (sometimes referred to as Torrence Avenue Assembly) is Ford Motor Company 's oldest continuously operated automobile manufacturing plant. It is located at E. 130th Street and Torrence Avenue in the Hegewisch neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois, US.

3. List of food manufacturers of Chicago - Wikipedia

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   Since the 1830s, when Chicago enjoyed a brief period of importance as a local milling center for spring wheat, the city has long been a center for the conversion of raw farm products into edible goods. [2] Since the 1880s, Chicago has also been home to firms in other areas of the food processing industry, including cereals, baked goods, and ...

4. List of power stations in Illinois - Wikipedia

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   Wind (12.4%) Solar (1.1%) Biomass (0.2%) Petroleum & Other Gases (0.2%) Hydroelectric (0.1%) Other (0.1%) Illinois electricity production by type. This is a list of electricity-generating power stations in the U.S. state of Illinois, sorted by type and name. In 2022, Illinois had a total summer capacity of 44,163 MW and a net generation of ...

5. Gustavus Franklin Swift - Wikipedia

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   The meat packing plants of Chicago were among the first to utilize assembly line (or in this case, disassembly-line) production techniques. [7] Henry Ford states in his autobiography My Life and Work that it was a visit to a Chicago slaughterhouse which opened his eyes to the virtues of employing a moving conveyor system and fixed work stations ...

6. Union Stock Yards - Wikipedia

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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 operated by a group of railroad companies that acquired marshland and turned it into a centralized processing area. By the 1890s, the railroad capital behind the ...

7. Mickelberry Sausage Company plant explosion - Wikipedia

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   The Mickelberry Sausage Company plant explosion was a massive explosion and fire that killed nine people in Chicago on February 7, 1968. [1] The factory made meat products such as hot dogs, lard, and hams under the Mickleberry Old Farm brand. [2] Mickelberry was founded in 1893. [citation needed]