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Almighty Saints. The Almighty Saints is a street gang founded in the early 1960s by Polish youth at Davis Square Park in the Back of the Yards neighborhood of Chicago, but later was largely made up of Hispanics due to the change in the community's ethnic makeup. The name "Saints" was borrowed from the TV series of the same name as evidenced by ...
New City, Chicago. / 41.8100°N 87.6600°W / 41.8100; -87.6600. New City is one of Chicago's 77 official community areas, located on the southwest side of the city in the South Side district. It contains the neighborhoods of Canaryville and Back of the Yards. The area was home to the famous Union Stock Yards until it closed in 1971, and ...
The Town Hall in Austin Mayor Rahm Emanuel speaking at St. Hyacinth Basilica in Avondale The Back of the Yards neighborhood derived from the Union Stockyards, at one time a significant employer in Chicago. Upton Sinclair's 1906 novel The Jungle revolves around the life of a Lithuanian immigrant working the Stockyards named Jurgis Rudkus.
CHICAGO - Two teenage boys were killed in a shooting in the Back of the Yards neighborhood Saturday evening.. About 6:07 p.m., a 15-year-old boy and a 17-year-old boy were standing near the front ...
June 5, 2024 at 4:10 AM. CHICAGO - Chicago police have launched a homicide investigation after finding the body of a missing man in the Back of the Yards neighborhood. The 47-year-old man was ...
July 9, 2024 at 6:36 AM. CHICAGO - A person was shot and killed Tuesday morning in the Back of the Yards neighborhood. Police officers found an unidentified male suffering from a gunshot wound to ...
Joseph Saltis. Joseph Francis Saltis (8 September 1894 [ 1] – 2 August 1947), known as " Polack Joe ", was a Rusyn American Prohibition era organized crime boss who, with Frank McErlane, operated an illegal bootlegging crime family in the Back of the Yards neighborhood of Chicago, until his territory was seized by Al Capone and the Chicago ...
The Union Stock Yard & Transit Co., or The Yards, was the meatpacking district in Chicago for more than a century, starting in 1865. The district was operated by a group of railroad companies that acquired marshland and turned it into a centralized processing area. By the 1890s, the railroad capital behind the Union Stockyards was Vanderbilt ...