Among them were Vienna Beef’s founders, Samuel Ladany and Emil Reichel, brothers-in-law who had arrived in Chicago three years before. The 1893 Columbian Exhibition featured a number of sausage vendors from Germany and Austria-Hungary jostling for attention. “There are also curious artifacts that demonstrate the evolution of the Chicago-style hot dog from its very beginning at the World’s Fair to today.” “The rich history of Vienna Beef and how it’s been part of the fabric of Chicago-that’s the number one thing that people can walk away with,” McGlade says. Visitors can check out a retired sausage stuffer from 1859, hand-painted signs by Gus Korn, and a whole row of merchandise that underscores the hot dog’s prominent role in local sports culture.
Much of the material on view was in company offices, while other objects came from the Vienna Beef factory, which occupied the building between 19. He also served as its curator, foraging for objects that, for the most part, have never before been on public display. McGlade, working with the company’s chairman and president, came up with the idea to create the Vienna Beef History Museum as one way to engage customers in the quasquicentennial celebrations. “I’m sure it’s turned into a rock by now.” “That came out of somebody’s drawer,” says Tom McGlade, Vienna Beef’s vice president of marketing/eCommerce. Occupying a former plant room, the small exhibition features archival documents and an array of paraphernalia that chronicle the company’s origins and evolution-including one surviving gold-plated sausage keychain, whose tips have gone green from corrosion.
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This year, Vienna Beef turns 125. To celebrate its long history of hawking hot dogs-most famously, Chicago-style hot dogs-it recently opened a free museum at its Chicago headquarters on 2501 N. It’s the least appetizing way Chicago’s leading hot dog supplier has ever dressed up a sausage in its many decades of being in the business.
Cocktail franks were sent to California, where a specialist encased each in a thin coat of metal. Vienna Beef and Dayton Street didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment.In the 1970s, someone at Vienna Beef came up with a one-of-a-kind idea to promote the company’s sausages: electroplate them in 24-karat gold, and turn the results into keychains to hand out to customers. Vienna Beef was founded by Austrian-Hungarian immigrants in 1893 during the World’s Columbian Exposition. Its recent redevelopments include 2101 West Carroll Avenue, 2137 West Walnut and 1500 West Carroll Avenue. New York-based Drive Shack is trying to bring an upscale driving range to the old headquarters property on the North Branch of the Chicago River, near developer Sterling Bay’s planned Lincoln Yards megadevelopment, according to Crain’s.ĭayton Street has been quite active in the Kinzie Industrial Corridor since 2014. The new location is ideal for Vienna Beef because it’s near the company’s manufacturing facility in the Stockyards Industrial Park and its workforce, Dayton Street managing principal Howard Wedren said in a statement. JLL brokers Scott Duerkop and Dominic Carbonari represented Dayton Street and NAI Hiffman’s Chris Gary represented Vienna Beef. The building is located within the Kinzie Industrial Corridor, not far from the booming Fulton Market area of the West Loop, once known for its stock of meatpackers and wholesalers.
Vienna Beef signed a long-term lease to occupy the entire 42,000-square-foot building, which Chicago-based Dayton Street Partners bought for $2.8 million in 2018. Its manufacturing employees will remain in a more than 100,000-square-foot facility at 1000 West Pershing Road in Bridgeport. The company will soon move from its longtime home at 2501 North Damen Avenue in Bucktown to 2501 West Fulton Street in East Garfield Park. Hot dog producer Vienna Beef is relocating its headquarters to a recently-renovated industrial building on the Near West Side. 2501 West Fulton Street (Credit: Google Maps)
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