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TOPIC 6: TRAGEDIES AND CRIMES

TOPIC 6: TRAGEDIES AND CRIMES. 1812—Fort Dearborn Massacre of settlers by natives. Early Chicago was pretty wild…. 1840—first murderer hanged 1855—Lager Beer Riots. 1860. Lady Elgin sinks, and Milwaukee loses important people who would have helped that city compete against us.

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TOPIC 6: TRAGEDIES AND CRIMES

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  1. TOPIC 6: TRAGEDIES AND CRIMES • 1812—Fort Dearborn Massacre of settlers by natives

  2. Early Chicago was pretty wild…. • 1840—first murderer hanged • 1855—Lager Beer Riots

  3. 1860 • Lady Elgin sinks, and Milwaukee loses important people who would have helped that city compete against us

  4. 1871: Great Chicago Fire1874: 2nd fire south of Loop

  5. 1886: Haymarket Riot1887: Hanging of “martyrs”

  6. 1890s at the fair… • Holmes murders—lime pits, acid vats, etc

  7. 1894: Pullman Strike

  8. 1897: Leutgert, the sausage man

  9. 1903: Iroquois Theater Fire kills 603

  10. 1915: Eastland disaster

  11. 1919: Race Riot

  12. ALSO 1919: “Black Sox” scandal, flu epidemic

  13. 1920: tornado, 28 dead

  14. 1924: Leopold and Loeb kill 14 year old Bobby Franks

  15. 1929: St. Valentine’s Day Massacre, Stock Market Crash

  16. Lots of shootings… • 1930: Lingle shot in subway • 1933: Mayor Cermak shot in Miami—bullet had been meant for President FDR • 1934: Dillinger shot by Biograph Theater

  17. 1937: Republic Steel Strike

  18. 1953: polio epidemic

  19. 1958: Our Lady of the Angels School fire

  20. 1966 • Puerto Rican riots • Race issues • Richard Speck kills nurses

  21. 1968 • anti-Vietnam protests/riots • race riots following King assassination

  22. 1969 • Black Panther raid

  23. 1977 • L train falls off the track—11 people dead

  24. 1979 • Flight 191 crash • Blizzard

  25. 1980: John Wayne Gacy found guilty of 33 murders

  26. 1982: Tylenol deaths

  27. Almost done…. • 1983: Operation Greylord uncovers bribery scandals • 1988: Laurie Dann opens fire in a school in Winnetka • 1990: Plainfield tornado

  28. And finally… • 1992: Chicago flood, killing of Dantrell Davis • 1995—death row probe

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