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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.
At the end of the 19th century, Chicago completely transformed the way Americans eat, and the Union Stockyards on the South Side were the center of that revolution. Experience the sights,...
From its first opening in 1865 to its final closure in 1971, the Chicago Union Stock Yards were an urban institution deeply steeped in spectacle, some intentionally cultivated and precisely deployed, and others accumulated as natural byproducts of the sheer scale of human labor and animal slaughter it contained.
22 de abr. de 2022 · At the end of the 19th century, Chicago completely transformed the way Americans eat, and the Union Stockyards on the South Side were the center of that revolution. Experience the sights, sounds,...
The Union Stock Yards, the world’s largest complex of its kind, opened on Christmas Day 1865. Offshoot tracks from the main railroad lines carried livestock deliveries to the stockyards; drovers emptied the railroad cars of cattle, hogs, and sheep and herded them into the pens.
From its earliest days, Chicago residents and businesses alike dumped their waste directly into the Chicago River, which flowed into Lake Michigan and contaminated the city’s drinking water. Chicago Stories explores the various methods tried to combat the problem, and one engineer’s bold solution.
For the first two-thirds of the twentieth century, it wasn't unusual for motorists like these to encounter herds of cattle, flocks of sheep, or a drove of hogs, all on their way from the Cleveland Union Stockyards to nearby slaughterhouses-- sometimes more elegantly referred to as "abbatoirs."
