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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.
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 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.
It was founded in Chicago, in 1863, by the Armour brothers led by Philip Danforth Armour. 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.
“We ain’t no tourist place:” Even the chicken-fried steaks were battered with extra garlic. Goodbye to a great dive: A 1960s cowboy steakhouse closes near Fort Worth Stockyards Skip to main ...
Allen Brothers is a purveyor of prime steaks headquartered in Chicago. Founded in 1893 on the Southside of Chicago in the Union Stock Yards meat area, [1] It is led by Christopher Pappas, CEO and founder of The Chefs' Warehouse, who is on a mission to preserve the integrity of the brand and steward the business for the next 120 years. [1]
The 90-year-old Star Cafe, a chicken-fried steak landmark that opened in the heyday of the Fort Worth Stockyards livestock market and meat packinghouses, has its second new owner in two years as ...
There’s no shortage of steaks in the Stockyards. And here’s where to look for free parking. Steakhouses in the Fort Worth Stockyards: Who’s new, who’s in — and who’s shockingly out