A historic and long-abandoned building on the edge of the former Union Stock Yards site will soon be entering a new chapter. A proposal by the City of Chicago aims to transform the former Stock ...

Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on May 19, according to the Tribune’s archives. Is an important event missing from this date? Email us. Weather records (from the National ...

WBBM Newsradio 780's Regine Schlesinger reports on Dec. 22, 1910, a horrific fire broke out in the Union Stockyards. It came to take the lives of 21 firefighters and three others. It was 24 ...

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But Orear needed the job at the Armour & Co. plant in Chicago’s Union Stock Yards. The Great Depression had pulled him out of college, and he needed work to help his family. The job turned out ...

The CLEVELAND UNION STOCKYARDS CO. was organized as the Cleveland Union Stockyards in 1881 and incorporated as the Cleveland Union Stockyards Co. in 1892. In 1893 it acquired the Farmers & Drovers' ...

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