Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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 ...
In the late 1850s, Lyman A. Budlong (1829–1909) started a large farm in Chicago—in an area now named Budlong Woods—called the Budlong Nursery. [7] [8] Dates of the Nursery's establishment vary, but it must have been in 1857, the year that Lyman first came to Chicago, or later.
Southern Illinois chowder is a thick stew or soup, very different from the New England and Manhattan chowders. In Edwards County, Illinois, it refers to both the food and to the social gathering at which it is prepared and served. [1] It is believed to have been brought to the area by the earliest settlers, or "backwoodsmen".
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.
[2] [3] The recipe has been attributed to the owners, brothers Henri, Pierre and Charles DeJonghe, Belgian immigrants who came to Chicago to run a restaurant at the World's Columbian Exposition, or their chef, Emil Zehr. [4] The dish was the most popular at Fritzel's Restaurant, which was open from 1947 to 1972. [5]
The sandwich traces back to Italian American immigrants in Chicago as early as the 1930s, but the exact origin is unknown. The sandwich gradually grew in popularity and was widely eaten in the city by the 1970s and 1980s. [ 1 ]
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.
Annual events include Illinois Craft Beer Week, [87] [88] the Festival of Barrel-Aged Beers (known as FOBAB), [89] [90] the Chicago Beer Festival, [91] and the Chicago Beer Classic. [ 92 ] [ 93 ] In the mid- to late-20th century, the most popular beer in Chicago was Old Style , a mass-produced lager that at the time was brewed by G. Heileman in ...