Chicago’s iconic pork belly market closes

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Pork bellies had their heyday in the late 1960s and 1970s, when they were the CME’s most popular agriculture contract “The glamour market was the pork bellies. There was a mystique about it, maybe it was the name,” said Harvey Paffenroth, who has been at the CME since 1968.