100 years ago, my grandfather Rocky Clancy founded the Rockwell F. Clancy Company, our predecessor company.  Rocky was born in 1893 and grew up in a rough-and-tumble neighborhood in the Union Stockyards of Chicago where my great grandfather was a Methodist minister.

From the Civil War until the 1920s, Chicago was the center of the American meatpacking industry, producing more than 80 percent of domestic meat consumed nationally.  The slaughterhouses … continue reading