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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.
Armour and Company historical marker in Fort Worth, Texas; the company closed its operations there in 1962 In 1970, Armour and Company was acquired by Chicago-based bus company Greyhound Corporation [ 5 ] after a hostile takeover attempt by General Host Corporation [ 6 ] a year before.
The stockyards closed in 2001. Only one major meatpacker remains in town. The city's fortunes ebbed as family-owned businesses gave way to corporations and the consolidation of American industry.
Address: 4220 South Halsted Street Chicago, Illinois 60609 United States: Coordinates: 1]: Owner: Union Stock Yard and Transit Company (until 1983): Capacity: 9,000: Construction; Opened: December 1, 1934 () [2]: Closed: 1999: Demolished: August 3, 1999 (began): Construction cost: $1.5 million ($34.2 million in 2023 dollars [3]): Architect: Abraham Epstein [2] [4]: Tenants; Chicago American ...
The stockyards closed more than a half-century ago. About the only trace of Chicago’s manufacturing glory is the forest of balconies tacked onto repurposed factories. Now the Silos’ owner ...
Union stockyards in the United States were centralized urban livestock yards where multiple rail lines delivered animals from ranches and farms for slaughter and meat packing. A stockyard company managed the work of unloading the livestock, which was faster and more efficient than using railway staff. [ 1 ]
It is all here in this series: This is the history of heavyweight championship – every one of the main players. At the very start of 1970 Muhammad Ali was still in boxing exile, Joe Frazier was ...
The Union Stockyards of Omaha, Nebraska, were founded in 1883 in South Omaha by the Union Stock Yards Company of Omaha. [1] A fierce rival of Chicago's Union Stock Yards, the Omaha Union Stockyards were third in the United States for production by 1890. [2] In 1947 they were second to Chicago in the world.