Armour Meat Packing Plant, Tankage Building

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I finally figured out what the “Tankage Building” was; it was where all of the extraneous parts of the cow went, such as bones, etc.  I had always assumed this building was originally wider, but the maps show that a series of train tracks ran behind it and the cattle run ran by the front of the building.

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Update: Demolished in the summer of 2016.

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