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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...
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    The Union Stock Yard Gate, located on Exchange Avenue at Peoria Street, was the entrance to the famous Union Stock Yards in Chicago. The gate was designed...
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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...
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    The Chicago Union Stock Yards fire occurred from December 22 to December 23, 1910 in Chicago, resulting in the deaths of twenty-one Chicago Fire Department...
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    Union Stockyards of Omaha, Nebraska, were founded in 1883 in South Omaha by the Union Stock Yards Company of Omaha. A fierce rival of Chicago's Union...
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    as early as 1913. The Los Angeles Union Stock Yards were developed by the businessmen who ran the Union Stock Yards of Chicago. The Central Manufacturing...
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    the neighborhoods of Canaryville and Back of the Yards. The area was home to the famous Union Stock Yards until it closed in 1971, and the International...
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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...
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    The Stock Yards branch was a rapid transit line which was part of the Chicago 'L' system from 1908 to 1957. The branch served the Union Stock Yards and...
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    The Union Stock Yards Company of Omaha was a 90-year-old company first founded in South Omaha, Nebraska in 1878 by John A. Smiley. After being moved to...
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    Stock Yards Chicago Union Stock Yards Denver Stock Yards Detroit Stock Yards El Paso Union Stock Yards Fort Worth Stockyards Jersey City Stock Yards Kansas...
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  • neighborhood, adjacent to the Union Stock Yards. The venue opened on November 30, 1934. It had been built for $1.5 million by the Stock Yard company and was principally...
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    20th century by the local meatpacking businesses surrounding the Union Stock Yards directly south of the creek's endpoint at Pershing Road. It was brought...
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  • Omaha Terminal Railway in Omaha, Nebraska was a subsidiary of the Union Stock Yards Company of Omaha. Until the separate railroad company was created...
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    associates, incorporated the Fort Worth Stock Yards Company on March 23, 1893, and purchased the Union Stock Yards and the Fort Worth Packing Company. The...
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    communities and subdivisions were the results of such efforts. The Union Stock Yards, which were once located in the New City community area (#61), at...
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    Jackson Park, with branches to Englewood, Normal Park, Kenwood, and the Union Stock Yards. The first 3.6 miles (5.8 km) of the line opened on June 6, 1892....
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    Chicago's most important business and had helped make Chicago and its Union Stock Yards the center of America's meatpacking industry. During the same period...
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  • Stockyard (redirect from Stock yards)
    Park League, Massachusetts, United States Meat packing industry Union Stock Yards Yard (disambiguation) This disambiguation page lists articles associated...
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  • market would be destroyed by a fire in 1908 and rebuilt shortly after. Union Stock Yards Company Limited was established in 1900 and began operating in The...
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    operated a switching and terminal railroad in Chicago, connecting the Union Stock Yards with most other railroads in the city. It also briefly operated an...
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    Harry Burns (filmmaker) Ship Cafe (Venice, California) Los Angeles Union Stock Yards "Fight Pavilion Burned Down". Evening Vanguard. October 25, 1915....
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  • bankrupt and worked at the Union Stock Yards, where he gained the nickname "Big Jim." In the early 1890s, he left the Stock Yards and opened a saloon on Halsted...
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    first Heisman Trophy. In 1934, a major fire broke out at the Chicago Union Stock Yards, the second major fire in its history after the 1910 fire. Masses...
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  • from a buyer in Abilene. The buyer in turn could ask $31.50 at the Union Stock Yards. King could drive his cattle for a hundred days to the railheads of...
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  • Congress Station". Chicago Daily Tribune. March 9, 1902. p. 3. "Crowds on Stock Yards Line of the South Side Elevated". Chicago Daily Tribune. April 9, 1908...
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    commission came from John B. Sherman, the superintendent of the massive Union Stock Yards in Chicago, which provided the livelihood – directly or indirectly...
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  • University, where Isaac Funk was one of the founders, and Chicago's Union Stock Yards. Funk's G-Hybrid and the Funk Brothers Seed Company were, in their...
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    stopped, there gathered a crowd of persons to see the hog. At the Union Stock Yards in Chicago he attracted not a little attention and drew a crowd like...
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  • The stockyards flourished through the 1940s. At its peak only the Union Stock Yards in Chicago was bigger. Business dropped off dramatically after the...
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