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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.
The 1904 Stockyards Strike in Chicago. Chicago Sun-Times/Chicago Daily News collection/Chicago History Museum/Getty Images Tragedies like the mining explosions and factory fire helped spur what ...
The International Amphitheatre was an indoor arena located in Chicago, Illinois, that opened in 1934 and was demolished in 1999.It was located on the west side of Halsted Street, at 42nd Street, on the city's south side, in the Canaryville neighborhood, adjacent to the Union Stock Yards.
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 Stock Yard Pens, Omaha, Nebraska (postcard image from 1930s or 1940s). 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.
The Stock Yards branch was a rapid transit line which was part of the Chicago 'L' system from 1908 to 1957. The branch served the Union Stock Yards and the Canaryville neighborhood of Chicago and consisted of eight elevated stations. It opened on April 8, 1908, and closed on October 6, 1957.
Union Stockyards Credit: John Vachon , Farm Security Administration The Union Stock Yard & Transit Co. , or The Yards , operated in the New City community area of Chicago , Illinois for 106 years, helping the city become known as "hog butcher for the world" and the center of the American meat packing industry for decades.
The Chicago Union Stock Yards fire of 1934 was the second-most destructive fire in the city's history, after the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, in terms of property damage and buildings lost. [1] The Union Stock Yards of Chicago, Illinois in the United States were, at the time, the commercial butchering and meatpacking center of the Midwest.