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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 .
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Chicago Union Stock Yards fire may refer to: Chicago Union Stock Yards fire (1910) , 21 firefighters and 3 civilians killed Chicago Union Stock Yards fire (1934) , second-most destructive Chicago fire in terms of property loss
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 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 ...
A third building, World Trade Center Building 7, which was not hit by a plane, but heavily damaged due to the collapse of the towers, also caught fire and subsequently collapsed. A third plane crashed into the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. and its impact and subsequent fire killed 125 in the building.
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As of September 2023, the average value of a single-family home in the Chicago area was just over $370,000 — about $20,000 above the U.S. average. But in parts of the area, home prices soar far ...