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South Water Market is a historic produce market in the Lower West Side neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois.Completed in 1925, the complex was designed as a structured replacement to Chicago's sprawling downtown produce markets on South Water Street; while these markets had existed since the mid-19th century, they had become a traffic and sanitation problem.
In Louisiana, it is called sacalait [12] (Cajun French: sac-à-lait, lit. ' milk bag ' ), [ 13 ] seemingly an allusion to its milky white flesh or silvery skin. [ 14 ] [ 15 ] The supposed French meaning is, however, folk etymology , because the word is ultimately from Choctaw sakli , meaning "trout".
Smoked fish were popular in the 1940s and 1950s, when shipping and fishing boat traffic were heavy on Chicago's waterways. [5] The business began a slow decline over the decades, as the neighborhood and economy changed, and fried seafood was introduced to generate more sales.
Burhop's Seafood is a privately owned seafood retailer and one-time wholesaler and full-service restaurant founded in 1926 by Albert E. Burhop in Chicago, Illinois.. The company is best known for having partnered with Clarence Birdseye in the 1920s to transport refrigerated seafood into the Midwestern United States for the first time.
Chicago-based food tech company Nature’s Fynd plans to open a facility in the Back of the Yards that will help it scale up production as it launches its meatless breakfast patties and dairy-free ...
CHICAGO — Under the muddy surface of the Chicago River, a bluegill swam miles upon miles, back and forth from one end of the river system to another. Next to a quiet, unused barge slip near ...
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 bird deaths on Chicago's shores also prompted the Milwaukee County Zoo to close its aviary "out of an abundance of caution." In an announcement, the zoo said the closure would last "for the ...