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"The Chicago Stockyards: 150 Years of Spectacle and Innovation" by Dominic A. Pacyga, Ph.D.

This past event may be viewed on YouTube at the link below, and it includes subtitles in English and Spanish.

Dominic A. Pacyga, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus of History at Columbia College Chicago, presented this journey through 150 years at the Union Stock Yards, an epic slice of Chicago with a layered past famously fictionalized in Upton Sinclair's The Jungle, celebrated through the unions who fought for the eight-hour workday, and kept running through workers in the adjacent Back of the Yards neighborhood.

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