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  • A FIRE STRIKES THE CHICAGO STOCK YARDS
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    A FIRE STRIKES THE CHICAGO STOCK YARDS
    JOHN F HOGAN / ALEX A. BURKHOLDER
    This compelling history chronicles some of the most intense and tragic fires in Chicago's storied meatpacking district. Chicago's Union Stock Yards made the city "the hog butcher of the world," but the notoriety came at a grievous cost. From their opening on Christmas Day of 1865 to their final closure in July of 1971, The Yards were the site of nearly three hundred extra-alarm...

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  • THE GREAT CHICAGO BEER RIOT
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    THE GREAT CHICAGO BEER RIOT
    JOHN F HOGAN / JUDY E. BRADY
    An "exhaustive" account of the pivotal incident between "native-born Protestant Chicagoans who founded the city and newer German and Irish immigrants" ( Bloomberg). 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 seemed a deliberate provocation from B...

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  • FORGOTTEN FIRES OF CHICAGO
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    FORGOTTEN FIRES OF CHICAGO
    JOHN F. HOGAN / ALEX A. BURKHOLDER
    A historical journey through the city's catastrophic fires, and the stories of the heroes who fought them.   Chicago's war against cinder, flame, and smoke did not end with the Great Fire of 1871. In 1909, fire ripped through the dynamite room of a staging facility a mile and half off the Lake Michigan shoreline, transforming the pipe-laying operation into a raging inferno. Dur...

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  • THE 1937 CHICAGO STEEL STRIKE
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    THE 1937 CHICAGO STEEL STRIKE
    JOHN F. HOGAN
    This in-depth history of the Memorial Day Massacre brings new clarity to the conflicting reports that left too many questions unanswered.   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 picket Republic Steel's South Chicago plant. Ten died and ove...

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  • CHICAGO SHAKEDOWN
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    CHICAGO SHAKEDOWN
    JOHN F. HOGAN
    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 other insiders to form a dummy corporation to blackmail Peoples Gas Company. The scam poured money into the coffers of beneficiaries who were never prosecuted, including the governor of Illinois, John P....

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