McKinley Park
| Territory Data | |
| Open Territory
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| Territory Claimed by: | None |
| Sphere: | Werewolf |
| Location Value: | 15 |
| Specialty: | Small Talk (Socialize) |
| Cost Reductions: | Hardy, Closed Book, Hobbyist Clique |
| Unique Bonus: | One per month, succeed on a social roll to reserve the park for a special event. |
| Travel Code: | none |
Description
If industries created pollution, they also created many good industrial jobs and led to a period of unprecedented growth and prosperity. Irish, Germans, Swedes, English, and native-born Americans filled the industrial jobs of the 1870s. Even after 1900, when Poles and other Central Europeans came to the area, English prevailed as the street language, and the area was the most American of all settlements in the stockyard districts. Transportation had always been poor, but the 1880s and 1890s saw improvement and extension of the car lines on Archer Avenue and on 35th Street. As time passed, steel mills and brickyards closed and industries changed, replaced by new activities. The Central Manufacturing District was begun in 1905 on some 260 acres along the south fork. In the late 1990s it was still operating, Pepsi-Cola was opening a new bottling plant, and the Wrigley Company was still making chewing gum. Meanwhile, the Chicago Sun-Times was building a mammoth publishing and distribution plant west of Ashland along the Chicago River.