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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.
John H.White talks in a photojournalism class at Chicago Columbia College on October 5, 2017. Photo by Moe Zoyari [1] A photo taken by White, documenting African American life on Chicago's South Side in May 1974. John H. White (born 1945 in Lexington, North Carolina) is an American photojournalist, recipient of a Pulitzer Prize in 1982.
South Works is an area in the South Chicago part of Chicago, Illinois, ... By 1951, the South Works boasted 11 blast furnaces, 8 electric furnaces, and 12 rolling ...
Argonne began in 1942 as the Metallurgical Laboratory, part of the Manhattan Project at the University of Chicago. The Met Lab built Chicago Pile-1, the world's first nuclear reactor, under the stands of the University of Chicago sports stadium. In 1943, CP-1 was reconstructed as CP-2, in the Argonne Forest, a forest preserve location outside ...
St. Michaels Church (center) in Old Town in 2015; the borders of Old Town have sometimes been described as the hearing distance of its bells. [4] [5] Klinkel Hall, a German beer hall in 1854 at present-day 1623 North Wells, was one of the locations for the Lager beer riot of 1855.
From June 8, 1873, to January 1, 1887, the original Roanoke building served as the Chicago location for the National Weather Service Weather Forecast official climate site. [5] The building is mentioned in Saul Bellow 's More Die of Heartbreak but there it is referred to as a wealthy residence building and not as an office building.
Union Park is a municipal park in Chicago, Illinois, comprising 13.46 acres (5.45 ha). [1]Located in the Near West Side, the park is just south of Ashland/Lake station on the Green and Pink lines of the Chicago 'L', bordered by North Ashland Avenue on the west, West Lake Street on the north, the diagonal North Ogden Avenue along most of the east border, and West Washington Boulevard on the south.
The Richard B. Ogilvie Transportation Center (/ ˈ oʊ ɡ ə l v iː /), on the site of the former Chicago and North Western Terminal, is a commuter rail terminal in downtown Chicago, Illinois. For the last century, this site has served as the primary terminal for the Chicago and North Western Railway and its successors Union Pacific and Metra ...