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Back of the Yards book released June 2007
Recent updates have been made
Book is going into fourth printing!
| 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
| 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 |
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