The Chicago Stock Yard Kilty Band (one of the oldest continuous pipe bands in the United States of America) was formed in 1921 by brothers Robert and James Sim. The Sim brothers came from a piping family in Aberdeen, Scotland where their father made bagpipes. Both served in World War I (Bob with the 4th Battalion, Gordon Highlanders and Jim, who enlisted at 13, with the Royal Engineers Pipe Band and later with the 51st Highland Division).

After coming to Chicago, Bob Sim joined the Canadian Kilties Pipe Band, which has since gone out of existence. In 1921 Sim decided to form his own pipe band and after obtaining uniforms from ex-servicemen of the British Legion he and his brother organized the British Legion Pipe Band. In 1925 the Chicago Stockyard American Legion Post #333 was organized and was looking for a musical unit. The band became affiliated with the Stockyard Post in 1926 and changed its name to the Chicago Stock Yard Kilty Band.

The band currently competes in grade 4 and has won six champion supreme awards, competing in Grades 5, 4, and 3 in the Midwest Pipe Band Association.

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