General Discussion Forgotten Chicago Forum
Feel free to discuss anything related to the website here.
S Halsted---What Used to Be There?
Posted by:
querencia
(---.lightspeed.cicril.sbcglobal.net)
Date: December 14, 2012 10:44PM
Today when heading north on the Halsted bus I noticed several huge factories---along between 5000 and 4000 South---impressive buildings but now derelict. Does anyone know what they were? I thought maybe some kind of meat packing business, but Halsted is considerably east of the site of the Stockyards. Just wondering.
Re: S Halsted---What Used to Be There?
Posted by:
tommy wilson
(---.lv.lv.cox.net)
Date: December 15, 2012 04:23PM
ENGLEWOOD KNITTING MILLS AROUND 66TH HALSTED, THEY DID A LOT OF THE HIGH SCHOOL SWEATERS AND LETTERS. WE HAD 0UR 1954 SONS OF ITALY JACKETS EMBROIDERED THERE.THE TOTAL COST TAX AND TIP $7.00. BRING BACK THE OLD DAYS.
Re: S Halsted---What Used to Be There?
Posted by:
nordsider
(---.hsd1.il.comcast.net)
Date: December 15, 2012 08:40PM
I've read, that on the northwest corner of Halsted Street and Exchange Avenue (4136 S), is an abandoned old hotel, for people who brought cattle to the Union Stockyards.
On the site of the Transit House. And possibly may have been given a fictional name in the Upton Sinclair book The Jungle?
http://www.domu.com/chicago/history-map/upton-sinclair-the-jungle
Chicago, IL Transit House Fire, Jan 1912
http://www3.gendisasters.com/illinois/7666/chicago-il-transit-house-fire-jan-1912
Using Google Maps, searching: "4136 South Halsted, Chicago", the street view shown was taken in July, 2011. The building may be the old Stock Yards Inn.
And also, I found this description of a photograph of the Transit House in David Lowe's book Lost Chicago (published in 1975):
"The Yards had their own hotel, the Transit House, built in 1869. Here, in the lush days, cowboys and cattlemen from the West mixed with purchasing agents for the armies of the German and French and British empires and the princes of Packington . . . . The Transit House burned in 1912 and was replaced by the Stock Yards Inn."
Edited 7 time(s). Last edit at 12/17/2012 06:43PM by nordsider.
On the site of the Transit House. And possibly may have been given a fictional name in the Upton Sinclair book The Jungle?
http://www.domu.com/chicago/history-map/upton-sinclair-the-jungle
Chicago, IL Transit House Fire, Jan 1912
http://www3.gendisasters.com/illinois/7666/chicago-il-transit-house-fire-jan-1912
Using Google Maps, searching: "4136 South Halsted, Chicago", the street view shown was taken in July, 2011. The building may be the old Stock Yards Inn.
And also, I found this description of a photograph of the Transit House in David Lowe's book Lost Chicago (published in 1975):
"The Yards had their own hotel, the Transit House, built in 1869. Here, in the lush days, cowboys and cattlemen from the West mixed with purchasing agents for the armies of the German and French and British empires and the princes of Packington . . . . The Transit House burned in 1912 and was replaced by the Stock Yards Inn."
Edited 7 time(s). Last edit at 12/17/2012 06:43PM by nordsider.
Re: S Halsted---What Used to Be There?
Posted by:
Deejo
(---.chi.clearwire-wmx.net)
Date: December 16, 2012 12:38PM
Halsted was the eastern border of the stockyards. Many of those warehouses could have been meat-associated.
Re: S Halsted---What Used to Be There?
Posted by:
WayOutWardell
(---.dsl.chcgil.sbcglobal.net)
Date: December 16, 2012 12:45PM
The Mickleberry Meat plant used to be at 801 W. 49th Place. There was a massive explosion and fire there in 1968 which killed nine people including four firefighters.
Here's a YouTube video of some of the fire footage:
[url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnVZWwbU0DY]Mickleberry Fire, 1968[/url]
Not sure what occupied the site in the subsequent years.
Here's a YouTube video of some of the fire footage:
[url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnVZWwbU0DY]Mickleberry Fire, 1968[/url]
Not sure what occupied the site in the subsequent years.
Re: S Halsted---What Used to Be There?
Posted by:
dmr37
(63.139.146.---)
Date: January 26, 2015 07:33PM
Goodman factory at 4800 south
Re: S Halsted---What Used to Be There?
Posted by:
southwestside83rd
(---.dsl.emhril.sbcglobal.net)
Date: January 26, 2015 11:14PM
3800 south halsted area was hysan products chemical and soaps worked there in the late 1960s
