Quarrying, Stone Cutting, and Brick Making - Encyclopedia
2016year10month11day · The brickyard of Strauss, Hahne & Co. in Blue Island, established in 1863, was making over 25 million bricks per year by the 1870s. By the beginning of the 1890s, the metropolitan area was home to about 60 brickyards, which made a total of about 600 million bricks annually. Nearly half of this output came from the six largest yards,
