Since its opening a year ago, this elevated walkway has people strolling through the meatpacking district.
Ogden became a hub for mining, livestock, agricultural products, canning and meatpacking.
Key industries, including meatpacking and steel, became highly concentrated in response to the reduced cost of transportation.
AT ABOUT 8.30am on Saturday October 15th, close to the city’s former meatpacking district, one of Chicago’s ancient water mains burst.
On a recent August night, young women in stilettos teetered precariously through the cobblestone streets of the meatpacking district in Manhattan.
The popular outrage generated by Upton Sinclair's devastating, fact-based novel about the meatpacking industry in Chicago, The Jungle, had helped to create the Food and Drug Administration in 1906.
