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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.
By 1880, the company had become Chicago's most important business and had helped make Chicago and its Union Stock Yards the center of America's meatpacking industry. During the same period, its facility in Omaha, Nebraska, boomed, making the city's meatpacking industry the largest in the nation by 1959.
The Union Stock Yard Gate is located on Chicago's South Side, on a plaza in the center of Exchange Avenue at its junction with Peoria Street. This position marked the principal eastern entrance to the stock yards, which occupied several hundred acres to the west. It is a limestone construction with a central main arch flanked by two smaller arches.
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 ]
The 1904 Stockyards Strike in Chicago. Chicago Sun-Times/Chicago Daily News collection/Chicago History Museum/Getty Images.
It worked initially with a specialty packager in Chicago instead of investing in machines that might wind up gathering dust if the category didn't take off. But it did. Sales grew 20 percent a ...
Morris & Company was founded by Nelson Morris in Chicago. [1] In 1902, with Nelson's son Edward Morris as president, it agreed to merge with the other two (Armour & Company and Swift & Company) to form a giant corporation called the National Packing Company. [2]
Stock Yards/Background: Rawin Tanpin/EyeEm/Getty Images. TOTAL: 85/100. If your fondest hot dog memories happened at the ballpark, Stock Yards’s Chicago Beef Franks will conjure up alllll the ...