Union Stockyards

Union Stockyards is a mid-weight economic euro game with unique features:

A supply/demand driven market that is central to game play, not a sidebar.

Low randomness -- market changes due to player decisions.

A worker-placement game where your workers may go on strike.

Extensively-researched historical theme about one of the great industrial wonders of U.S. Gilded Age.

Opening in 1865, the Union Stockyards became Chicago’s largest industry and one of the city’s top tourist attractions with a half million visitors annually in the early 1900’s. From the Civil War through the 1920’s, more meat was processed here than anywhere in the world. During its height, 40,000 mostly immigrant workers labored in “the busiest square mile on earth”, where over one million livestock passed monthly, supplying 80% of all U.S. meat. There were over 2,300 livestock pens and 130 miles of railroad within the “yards”.