Meat Packing Blues
Slaughterhouse demonstrates how the stockyards district is once more at the forefront of innovation in food production and the use of urban space, again making Chicago a showplace for the future.
Adam Mack is associate professor of history at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He is the author of Sensing Chicago: Noisemakers, Strikebreakers, and Muckrakers (2015, University of Illinois Press).
Slaughterhouse demonstrates how the stockyards district is once more at the forefront of innovation in food production and the use of urban space, again making Chicago a showplace for the future.