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Back of the Yards (IL) (Images of America)

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The Back of the Yards neighborhood, positioned in back of the Union Stockyards and composed of Packingtown, The town of Lake, and New City, was once the setting of Upton Sinclair’s classic 1906 novel, The Jungle. Permeated by an unforgettable smell, Back of the Yards was once a melting pot of immigrants, many that worked within the stockyards. In 1894, Mary McDowell began the University of Chicago Settlement House in Back of the Yards. She improved living conditions and in 1905 helped create Davis Square Park. The Back of the Yards Neighborhood Council was once founded in 1939 by Joseph Meegan, Saul Alinsky, and Bishop Bernard Sheil and is The usa’s oldest notforprofit communitybased organization. It consisted of 185 delegate organizations involving residents, business owners, churches, parks, schools, and social clubs that worked to advocate improvements. The council motto continues on as “We the folk will work out our own destiny.” Relive the bustling activity and the lives of the folk in the community throughout the historic images in Back of the Yards.

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