Slaughterhouse: Chicago's Union Stock Yard and the World It Made by Dominic A. Pacyga

Slaughterhouse: Chicago's Union Stock Yard and the World It Made

Dominic A. Pacyga

256 pages first pub 2015 (editions)

nonfiction history sociology informative medium-paced
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From the minute it opened--on Christmas Day in 1865--it was Chicago's must-see tourist attraction, drawing more than half a million visitors each year. Families, visiting dignitaries, even school groups all made trips to the South Side to tour the...

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