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The book appeared the same year the Union Stock Yards opened on Christmas Day 1865 — a 320-acre consolidation of nine separate stockyards into a single vast facility on the South Side of Chicago, financed by a consortium of nine railroads and the Chicago Pork Packers' Association at a cost of more than one million dollars. 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Every building is shown to scale and color-coded for construction, with its height, use, occupant and hazards noted, alongside the hydrants, water mains, sprinkler systems and boilers that protected it. This first volume of the South Division covers the heart of the city: the Loop from the Chicago River south to Van Buren Street, State Street and the department stores, the wholesale and printing blocks along the river, the railway terminals, and the lake front along Michigan Avenue. 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