Carl Sandburg called the city “Hog butcher for the world” — and was awarded a $200 prize — for his 1914 poem “Chicago.”

For stock men and women, cowboys, college students and even 4-H Club kids, Chicago was the destination of top prizes for their pampered farm animals (which were then sold at auction for meat) from the United States and Canada. People from around the world gathered here every November or December for 75 years to attend the International Livestock Exposition — except for when it was canceled in 1914-15 due to a prevalence of foot and mouth disease.

Just after Thanksgiving in 1899, representatives from the Union Stock Yards, packing companies and live stock associations met to organize the first International Live Stock (yes, two words) Exposition with plans to host an ina

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