Union Stock Yard Gate

The Union Stock Yard Gate, located on Exchange Avenue at Peoria Street, was the entrance to the famous Union Stock Yards in Chicago. The gate was designed by Burnham and Root around 1875, and is the only significant structural element of the stock yards to survive.

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Type: City gate
Description: gate in Illinois, United States of America
Also known as: “Union Stock Yards Gate”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Rate Field and Ramova Theater.

Rate Field

Stadium

Photo: Enoch Lai, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Rate Field is a baseball stadium on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois. It is the home ballpark of the Chicago White Sox, one of the city's two Major League Baseball teams, and is owned by the state of Illinois through the Illinois Sports Facilities Authority. Rate Field is situated 1 mile northeast of Union Stock Yard Gate.

Ramova Theater

Theater building

Photo: Mindaugas Danys, CC BY 2.0.

The Ramova Theater is a historic movie theater at 3508-3518 South Halsted Street in the Bridgeport neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. Businessman Jokūbas Maskoliūnas, one of the many Lithuanian immigrants who settled in Bridgeport in the early twentieth century, built the theater in 1929. Ramova Theater is situated 1 mile north of Union Stock Yard Gate.

Saint Gabriels Catholic Church

Church

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Saint Gabriels Catholic Church is situated 3,000 feet southeast of Union Stock Yard Gate.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Fuller Park and New City.

Fuller Park

Suburb

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Fuller Park is one of the 77 community areas of Chicago in Illinois, United States. Located on the city's South Side, it is 5 miles from the Loop. It is named for a small park also known as Fuller Park within the neighborhood, which is in turn named for Melville Weston Fuller, a Chicago attorney who was the Chief Justice of the United States between 1888 and 1910.

New City

Suburb

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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.

Bridgeport

Suburb

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Bridgeport is one of the 77 community areas in Chicago, on the city's South Side, bounded on the north by the South Branch of the Chicago River, on the west by Ashland Avenue, on the south by Pershing Road, on the east by the Union Pacific Railroad tracks, and on the northeast by the Dan Ryan Expressway.

Union Stock Yard Gate

Categories: gate, building, historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
Location: Chicago, Cook, Chicagoland, Illinois, Midwest, United States, North America
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Latitude

41.81862° or 41° 49′ 7″ north

Longitude

-87.6485° or 87° 38′ 55″ west

Inception

1879

Open location code

86HJR992+CJ

OpenStreetMap ID

way 210165313

OpenStreetMap feature

building=gatehouse

OpenStreetMap feature

historic=city_gate

Wikidata ID

Q7886121

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