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Bird's-Eye View of Stock Yard, 1860s

 

 

 

Bird's-Eye View of Stock Yard, 1860s

This 1860s bird's-eye view of Union Stock Yard suggests the impact of industries on the residential geography of the city. Built on the unsettled prairie, the stockyards attracted hundreds of thousands of workers, whose homes transformed the empty land into residential neighborhoods that, in 1889, were annexed to the City of Chicago.