Economic impact
Built Armour & Company into a large-scale meat processor and helped develop Chicago's Union Stock Yards. Adopted refrigerated rail transport to ship meat over long distances, employing thousands of industrial workers in Chicago.
Xcelerator · Person
Philip Armour
Founder, Armour & Company
Meatpacking & Industrial Development
Signal
- Region
- Chicago
- Industry
- Meatpacking & Industrial Development
- Source file
- profiles/chicago_profiles.md:418
- Status
- published