Chicago Didn't Grow Clean In the late 1800s and early 1900s, factories, rail yards, steel mills, and the Union Stock Yards powered the city’s rise. Smoke stacked over neighborhoods. The river turned into an open sewer. Air thickened with coal and industry. And for a long time, that was called progress. Pollution Built This City Like, Share, and Comment if you think Chicago could’ve grown differently and follow for the history hidden in the smoke and water. Chicago before and after Industrial Chi
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