How Water Pollution from Chicago’s Infamous Factory Farm Got Cleaned Up At Bubbly Creek

How Water Pollution from Chicago’s Infamous Factory Farm Got Cleaned Up At Bubbly Creek

Summer days are a precious resource in Chicago, especially in June, when memories of the city’s endless, gray winter are still fresh. On one warm Friday afternoon early in the month, a small crowd of Chicagoans could be found enjoying the weather at Bubbly Creek, a branch of the Chicago River that was once the dumping site for the Union Stock Yards, a sprawling meatpacking plant that processed millions of animals every year.A century ago, the ri…