100 Years Later: How Chinook Got Their Sugar Beet Factory

It is the dominating figure of the Chinook skyline, rising from the horizon as the first sign you are approaching town. The sugar beet factory smokestack and the factory that once powered it, has been welcoming people to the "Sugar City" for a century now. 100 years after it first rose over Chinook, we look back on the birth of the town's defining landmark.

Why Chinook?

As the 19th gave way to the 20th century, Chinook was a town of growth, a town of new. New buildings and new people popped up everyday and the race to attract more people and more business was a perpetual effort of town booster...