Darling is now Vantage Oleo Chemicals at Racine and 47th, and it is still an animal rendering plant. The raw materials are brought in by tank cars now instead of animals processed on-site.
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And Finks Links in Niles. What was the one in Skokie near where Old Orchard Mall is today?
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Pictures of Gutmann Tannery and the former Milwaukee Road "Deering Line" which once served it....scroll down. http://chicagoswitching.com/v6/articles/article.asp?articleid=37
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You are referring to the former Milwaukee Road Dunning Line which was cut back in stages to just north of Diversey. You can still see a slight hump in Irving Park Road where the tracks once crossed the street to enter the hospital grounds. The tracks are in place but no longer in use from where they leave the mainline and up to Diversey. The Soo Line (later absorbed by parent company CP Rail)
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