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- Union Stock Yards - Wikipedia
Philip Armour was the first person to build a modern large-scale meatpacking plant in Chicago in 1867 [30] The Armour plant was built at 45th Street and Elizabeth Avenue immediately to the west of the Union Stockyards
- The Union Stockyards: “A Story of American Capitalism” - WTTW Chicago
The stockyards transformed Americans’ relationship to meat Before mass production, most meat came from local farms and was butchered either by the farmer himself or at a nearby market But now, it could originate halfway across the country and arrive at the customer as a packaged cut of meat
- Union Stock Yards, Chicago – Food for Thought
Construction of the Chicago Stock Yards began in 1865 and closed in 1971 The larger meat processing companies there and then, Armour meats and Swift Co , are still the same larger companies today
- The History of the Union Stock Yards and Transit Company, Chicago (1865 . . .
Philip Armour was the first to build a modern large-scale meatpacking plant in Chicago in 1867 The Armour plant was built at 45th Street and Elizabeth Avenue immediately west of the Union Stockyards
- How Chicago’s Meatpacking Industry Became the “Hidden Frontline” of WWI
By the late 19th century, Chicago had staked its claim as America’s meat capital The Union Stock Yards, opened in 1865, centralized livestock handling and slaughter in one vast network
- Backstory: Chicago’s Union Stock Yards and Turn of the Century Red Meat . . .
The Union Stock Yards of Chicago was the massive centralized livestock gathering site that was the home base for the dressed and refrigerated beef industry (“industrial beef”) in the United States
- Meatpacking - Encyclopedia of Chicago
To alleviate the problem of driving cattle and hogs through city streets, the leading packers and railroads incorporated the Union Stock Yard and Transit Company in 1865 and built an innovative facility south of the city limits
- Remnants From Chicago’s Stock Yards and Meatpacking District
Erected in 1875, this limestone gate, designed by renowned local architect John Welborn Root, stands today as one of the few visual reminders of Chicago’s past dominance in the livestock and meat packing industries
- Union Stock Yard Historical Marker
The Union Stock Yard and Transit Company, Chicago's legendary livestock market and slaughterhouse, opened at this site on Christmas Day, 1865 (A historical marker located in Chicago in Cook County, Illinois )
- Stock Yards Packing Co. , Inc. -- Company History
In fact, Stock Yards was one of the first meat companies to allow customers to order specific grades and cuts of meat Stock Yards shipped its orders outside the Chicago-metro area in wooden barrels and 'church containers' packed with dry ice
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