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Chicago Shakedown: The Ogden Gas Scandal
The Ogden Gas Affair represented the biggest political scandal of Chicago's first sixty years. Mayor John P. Hopkins and Democratic Party boss Roger Sullivan conspired with ten …
Fire Strikes the Chicago Stock Yards: A History of Flame and Folly in the Jungle
Wade into the endless smoke of Chicago's Union Stock Yards, the site of nearly three hundred extra-alarm fires before its closure in 1971, including some of the most disastrous …
The Great Chicago Beer Riot: How Lager Struck a Blow for Liberty
In 1855, when Chicago s recently elected mayor Levi Boone pushed through a law forbidding the sale of alcohol on Sunday, the city pushed back. To the German community, the move …
Forgotten Fires of Chicago: The Lake Michigan Inferno and a Century of Flame
Chicago's war against cinder, flame and smoke did not end with the Great Fire of 1871. That conflagration was only one engagement in a ceaseless and often unrecognized conflict, …
The 1937 Chicago Steel Strike: Blood on the Prairie
A violent period of American labor history reached its bloody apex in 1937 when rattled Chicago police shot, clubbed and gassed a group of men, women and children attempting to …
The Chicago Water Tower
Contaminated drinking water killed thousands of Chicago's original citizens, so the city took the unprecedented step of digging a tunnel two miles long and 30 feet below lake …