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In 1906, Upton Sinclair’s “The Jungle” depicted the harsh conditions workers toiled under inside the slaughterhouses of the Union Stock Yard and Packingtown. A century later, this area that gave ...

The shuttering of the Union Stock Yard and Transit Co. on July 30, 1971, didn’t mark the end of Chicago’s role as “hog butcher for the world.” That came a year earlier, when “hog alley” closed, a ...

From the moment Jean Baptiste Point du Sable founded a trading post on the mouth of a river, Chicago has been a city undergoing change and rapid development. But few have burrowed as deeply into the ...