Matthew and his two oldest sons began working immediately, and his youngest son, John (my grandfather), who was a small boy, enrolled in school.Īfter two years, the family saved enough money for a down payment on a house at Robey and 53rd, which fulfilled Matthew’s need to be walking distance from his job at Morris and Company.Ĭurious what his father did all day, John skipped school one morning and ventured from his home in the “Back of the Yards” neighborhood to the nearby Union Stock Yards.įrom opening day in 1865 to 1900, approximately 400 million animals passed through the Union Stock Yards, which at its peak stretched nearly one square mile from Halstead Street to Ashland Avenue and 39th Street to 45th Street. In 1912 my great-grandfather Matthew Kosnar collected his family in rural Bohemia and began a journey that would take them by train, ship, and train again, nearly 6000 miles to their final destination in Chicago, Illinois.
Accessed from the Library of Congress Prints & Photographs catalog. In the heart of the Great Union Stock Yards, Chicago, U.S.A. Welcome to The Jungle: the story of adopting two food safety laws May 2, 2019
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