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Essential Architecture- Chicago
South and West Union Stock Yard Gate |
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architect |
Burnham and Root |
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location |
Exchange Ave. at Peoria St. |
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date |
circa 1875 |
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style |
Gothic |
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construction |
Stone |
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type |
Transport |
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At one time sprawling over 475 acres, the Union Stock Yards thrived for a
century, until its closing in 1971. This rugged limestone gate, which
marked the entrance to the stockyards, survives as one of the few visual
reminders of Chicago's past supremacy in the livestock and meatpacking
industries. The limestone steer head over the central arch is
traditionally thought to represent "Sherman," a prize-winning bull named
after John B. Sherman, one of the founders of the Union Stock Yard and
Transit Company. Through the arch once passed the people and livestock
that made Chicago the "hog butcher to the world". |
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links |
With special thanks to the City of
Chicago website,
www.egov.cityofchicago.org , for much of the info on this page.
Photos copyright City of Chicago. |
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