Best 40th anniversary to celebrate along with the Reader's
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June 23, 2011 at 4:00AM
The closing of the
Union Stock Yard At midnight on July 30, 1971, the 105-year-old Union Stock Yard closed and the nearly square mile bounded by Halsted Street, Ashland Avenue, Pershing Road (formerly 39th Street), and 47th Street—once hog (and cattle) butcher for the world, to paraphrase Carl Sandburg—became the Stockyards Industrial Park.
