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Back of the Yards book released June 2007

Back of the Yards
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Timeframe: Immigration - Upton Sinclair to Stockyards closing

Near West Gazette article

Back of the Yards Journal article

Draugas article

Gen Dobry article

About the Book

Author Interview

Press Release

About the Author

The Back of the Yards neighborhood,located in back of the Union Stockyards and composed of Packingtown, Town of Lake, and New City, was the setting of Upton Sinclair's classic 1906 novel, The Jungle. Permeated by an unforgettable smell, Back of the Yards was a melting pot of immigrants, many who worked in the stockyards. In 1894, Mary McDowell started 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 founded in 1939 by Joseph Meegan, Saul Alinsky, and Bishop Bernard Sheil and is American's oldest not-for-profit community-based 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 people will work out our own destiny." Relive the bustling activity and the lives of the people in the neighborhood through the historic images in Back of the Yards.

Link to Arcadia Publishing to purchase

EVENTS

August 21 (Tuesday) 6:30 PM at Chicago Public Library
Back of the Yards Branch
4650 S. Damen Ave., Chicago

August 4 (Saturday)from 12-2PM
POLO CAFE
3322 S. Morgan St., Chicago (Bridgeport)
CALL 773-927-POLO for Bloody Mary Brunch reservations, seating times: 9AM-2PM
http://www.polocafe.com

July 29 (Sunday)3PM at BORDERS
6103 N. Lincoln Avenue., Chicago (Lincoln Village)

July 19 (Thursday) 5-7PM at HEALTHY FOOD LITHUANIAN RESTAURANT
3236 S. Halsted St., Chicago (Bridgeport)
Phone: 312-326-2724
http://www.cityinsights.com/healthyfood.htm

July 14 (Saturday) 2PM at BORDERS
7100 W Forest Preserve Dr., Norridge
1450 AM WCEV (We're Chicagoland's Ethnic Voice)
MOSAIC radio interview:
Monday, July 2 at 1:35 p.m. and 9:35 p.m.
Sunday, July 1 at 10:35 a.m.
Saturday, June 30 at 5:05 p.m.
Friday, June 29 at 9:35 p.m.
Book signing Healthy Food Lithuanian Restaurant
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July 19, 2007

Chicago Printer's Row Book Fair
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June 10, 2007