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Location: Ed Miniat Inc., 945 West 38th Street, Chicago, IL 60609
Hours: Note: This is a business place and not open for tours.
Where: Map
Located just 2 blocks from the old Union Stockyards on Chicago's south side, Ed Miniat Inc. is a meat processing and animal fat rendering company. Founded during the turn of the century by Lithuanian immigrant Michael Miniat, the company was in Chicago and operating during the time of Upton Sinclair's writing of The Jungle.


Web site about the place
Miniat Fully Prepared Meats
Chicago Historical Society, The Birth of the Chicago Union Stockyards





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