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The Fuhrman and Forster Company was a meatpacking and sausage manufacturing company located in Chicago.. It was founded by three German immigrants from Bavaria.John and Andrew Fuhrman started the Fuhrman Brothers meat market at 408 W. Harrison in Chicago in 1897 and invited brother-in-law George Forster to join them in 1898 creating Fuhrman Bros. and Forster Meat Markets.
Moo & Oink was a Chicago, Illinois-based meat company and wholesaler. The company was founded by Joe Lezak, whose family had a long history of selling meat products in Chicago. Its' original location was at the corner of 35th and Calumet Avenue on Chicago's South Side. Moo & Oink sold a variety of meats including pork, chicken, beef, and lamb.
Union Stock Yards, Chicago, 1947. 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 formed by a group of railroad companies that acquired marshland and turned it into a vast centralized processing area.
In 1909, German immigrant Otto Kolschowsky opened a family meat market in Oak Park, Illinois [3] two years after his arrival in the United States. In 1917, he expanded into the wholesale meat trade and relocated the business to nearby Maywood, another Chicago suburb. The company became known as Otto & Sons in 1928.
The company's expansion continued throughout the mid-20th century. In 1932, Jewel acquired the Chicago unit of the Canadian firm Loblaw Groceterias, Inc., then a chain of 77 self-service stores, [11] as well as four Chicago grocery stores operated by the Middle West Stores Company, and began operating them under the name Jewel Food Stores. [12]
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