Bubbly Creek
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Bubbly Creek is the nickname given to the South Fork of the South Branch of the Chicago River. It runs entirely within the city of Chicago. It marks the boundary between the Bridgeport and McKinley Pa
Headwaters of Bubbly Creek and the Racine Avenue Pump Station
A man standing on slaughterhouse-derived waste in Bubbly Creek in Chicago in 1911.
Bubbly Creek and Bridgeport Village
The Jungle
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The Jungle is a novel by American author and journalist Upton Sinclair. In 1904, Sinclair spent seven weeks gathering information in the meat packing district of the Union Stock Yards in Chicago for t
Bubbly Creek
…south of the creek's endpoint at Pershing Road. It was brought to notoriety by Upton Sinclair in his exposé on the American meat packing industry titled The Jungle. Bubbly Creek originates near 38th Street, at the Racine Avenue Pump Station of the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago. It flows…
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A panorama of the beef industry in 1900 by a Chicago-based photographer
Men walking on wooden rails between cattle pens in the Chicago stockyard, 1909
Chicago meat inspectors in early 1906