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O'Leary's on South Halsted Street, 1906

 

 

 

O'Leary's on South Halsted Street, 1906

The commercial center of largely Irish Canaryville in the early twentieth century was Halsted Street, which boasted saloons and gambling houses such as O'Leary's. Located just east of the Union Stock Yard, many of the area's customers were affiliated with the meatpacking industry.