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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 operated by a group of railroad companies that acquired marshland and turned it into a centralized processing area.
The Billy Goat Tavern is a chain of taverns located in Chicago, Illinois. Its restaurants are based on the original Billy Goat Tavern founded in 1934 [ 1 ] by Billy Sianis , a Greek immigrant . It achieved fame primarily through newspaper columns by Mike Royko , a supposed curse on the Chicago Cubs , and the Olympia Cafe sketch on Saturday ...
Theresa McLaurin Needham (April 17, 1912 – October 16, 1992) was an American tavern owner who became known as "the Godmother of the Chicago blues". [1] She was posthumously inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame in 2001. Born Theresa McLaurin in Meridian, Mississippi, she was raised Catholic, married Robert Needham and moved to Chicago in the ...
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Pizza Hut just launched a brand-new lineup of Chicago Tavern-Style Pizzas and rolled out its "biggest toppings menu overhaul in over a decade," according to a press release shared with Eat This ...
This is the oldest building in Oregon and is believed to have been constructed by fur traders of French Canadian and/or Native American ancestry. [106] The next closest contenders are the Methodist Mission Parsonage c.1841, the Jason Lee House c.1841, the Delaney-Edwards House c.1845, the John McLoughlin House c.1846, and the John D. Boon House ...
LaMarr Hoyt won 24 games for the 1983 Chicago White Sox. ... one of Hoyt's former teammates with the White Sox and Hoyt's son Mathew. ... resulted in Hoyt winning the American League Cy Young award.
Fraunces Tavern was the site of merchants' meetings on the post-1763 taxes, plots by the Sons of Liberty, and entertainments for British and Loyalist officers during the American Revolution. In its Long Room, on December 4, 1783, General George Washington said farewell to his officers and family.