The Budlong Pickle Company was an American company based in Chicago that made and marketed pickles from its own cucumbers. Founded in the late 1850s, it was sold in 1958 to a company which was later acquired by Dean Foods. The Budlong pickle legacy has recently been revived as the namesake of restaurant in Chicago called “The Budlong Hot chicken”. Founded by Jared Leonard (CEO/Founder SSC Hospitality) in 2015, The Budlong Hot Chicken was originally called “The Budlong Pickle & Chicken shop”& was located on the site of the old farm in Lincoln square. The budlong Hot Chicken has grown into 5 stores in Chicago & is currently under franchise development. Background In the 19th century, Chicago was a powerhouse of American agriculture. The Union Stock Yards was the center of American meatpacking, and the Chicago Board of Trade provided financial support for investment in agricultural commodities. In addition to its dominance in meatpacking and the grain trade, Chicago was a center of American pickle industry in the late 19th century. Among the reasons for Chicago's pickle prominence were ample supplies of salt and a robust rail infrastructure. The Budlong family, an old Rhode Island family and the namesake of Budlong Farm, were established farmers and picklers on the East Coast, with a large operation in Cranston, Rhode Island. Early history In the late 1850s, Lyman A. Budlong (1829–1909) started a large farm in Chicago—in an area now named Budlong Woods—called the Budlong Nursery. Dates of the Nursery's establishment vary, but it must have been in 1857, the year that Lyman first came to Chicago, or later. The Nursery, nicknamed the "village of glass" after its many greenhouses, produced large quantities of cucumbers, onions, and other vegetables. It also grew flowers. Approximately in size, the center of the farm was at what is now the intersection of California and Foster Avenues in the Budlong Woods section of Chicago's Lincoln Square community area. The Budlong Pickle Company, founded in 1857 or 1859, was initially part of the same enterprise as the Nursery. In 1903, the Chicago Sunday Tribune called Budlong's the largest pickle farm in the world; as of 1928, the Tribune called "one of the largest pickle factories in the world". It sold approximately 100,000 bushels of pickled cucumbers per year during the late 19th century. In 1899, Joseph J. Budlong—Lyman's brother—patented a vegetable sorting device "particularly applicable to the