Union Stock Yards

History of the Back of the Yards Running from west Pershing Road, around south Western Avenue, west Garfield Boulevard, and ending at the intersection with south Halsted Street and west Pershing Road lies the neighborhood, New City, also known as the Back of the Yards. Canaryville is also another neighborhood that lies within New City. The establishment of the Union Stock Yards in 1865 led to the expansion of meatpacking in southside Chicago. Before private stock yards were created, tavern owners

image. The image that I chose was one of an abandon railroad terminal. Being a novice at analyzing images, I chose an image that was very familiar to me. The abandon rail yard image brought back a tumultuous outpouring of memories of my past life with the railroad. I was a freight conductor/brakeman, for the Southern Pacific and Union Pacific railroad for thirty-one years (1976-2007). I can say with all certainly what most people observe in this image, is not what a railroad person will see. Just from

August, many other forms of grafting are done just before plants begin new growth and are still dormant. Three terms are important in any discussion of grafting: stock, scion, and cambium. The stock is the rooted lower portion of a plant on which the graft is to be made. The scion is the shoot, bud or piece of twig to be fastened on the stock. Most important of all is the cambium, a thin layer of pale

demand, and then jobs to travel the goods like railroads (Duiker, 539). The need for workers was great for society however the living and working conditions for the middle class were not great. In Britain and many places around the like the Chicago stock yard workers and their families were put up in row houses. Row houses were over occupied with little rooms, and poor conditions such as the sewer drainage (Duiker, 539). The working class made little pay compared to the owners of the industries making

would go into battle with various artillery regiments that they may have not trained with previously and may not be up to par with unit standards of precision. This was the biggest weakness for the Union Army under General Meade. His cannon batteries were well supplied with plenty of ammunition and stock cannons to crossover ammunition to other cannon batteries. The Confederate army under General Lee on the other hand had the advantage with a more structured combat regiment to provide a more lethal

throughout the nation but especially in Chicago” (12) is another example of how the murder and gang violence of Chicago haltered its economic progress and is also representative of Holmes and Burnham’s contrasting qualities. Additionally, the Union Stock Yards is another symbol of evil in Chicago. Larson’s use of imagery to describe how the city was “ refulgent with the scents of murdered cattle and pigs…”(12). The blood and “murder” of these animals is of Holmes’s liking and is reflective of the

Westward expansion was always incentivized by some sort of reward. Some wanted to get away from the growing east coast. Some wanted to restart their lives. Others wanted to make a profit. Two great places to make a profit were Chicago and New Orleans. Specifically, the meat packing industry in Chicago and the river trade in New Orleans were significant money makers. However, the commerce suffers in both cities as problems arose. The fix to both commerce problems was the railroad. As the commerce

Andersonville (the Movie) “Five hundred men moved silently toward the gates that would shut out life and hope for most of them forever. Quarter of a mile from the railroad we came into a massive palisade with great squared logs standing upright in the ground. Fires blazed up and showed us a section of these and two massive wooden gates with heavy iron hinges and bolts. They swung open as we stood there and we passed through into the space beyond. We were at Andersonville.” – Private John McElroy

capitalist stock yard and slaughterhouse companies. That was the also the aim of Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle, but like Sinclair my writing became more about food than labor. Over the course I writing my script, the story shifted toward the cleanliness of food preparation and the evolution of meat consumption in American since the 1800s. While I did not aim to create a slightly disturbing story, my sources guided the narrative. Dominic A. Pacyga’s Slaughterhouse: Chicago's Union Stock Yard and the

a calling he held for 26 years. It was the Slide Ward because you simply couldn’t have the word Devil in the name of a ward. Not long after the Dicksons moved from Devil’s Slide to Morgan, the ward was dissolved. Bert worked as a plumber at the Union Portland Cement Company and Grace kept house, immaculately. It has been said a fly would skid to death if it tried to land in Grace’s house. A little bit of background on the town that figures so prominently in Dickson history: In 1824, an Englishman