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Back Of The Yards, ChicagoBack of the Yards is an industrial and residential neighborhood (located in the New City community area) on the Southwest Side of Chicago, so named because it is near the site of the former Union Stockyards. Life in this neighborhood at the beginning of the 20th century is profiled in Upton Sinclair's The Jungle. This neighborhood was famously organized by Saul Alinsky in the 1930s. External link *Back of the Yards Neighborhood Council (the country's oldest community organization, founded by Alinsky in 1939)
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