Bookmarks for August 19th from 06:40 to 11:12

Some additional reading August 19th from 06:40 to 11:12:

  • The South Loop Historical Society – First Regiment Armory – "One of Chicago’s many under-appreciated contributions to world history is the birth of the labor movement. The Haymarket Affair, on May 4, 1886, was a demonstration by tens of thousands of workers at Desplaines and Randolph Streets (then called Haymarket Square) in response to a police crackdown after a general strike called on May 1. During the demonstration, a bomb was thrown that resulted in the deaths of seven police officers. …

    Yet in the aftermath of the violence in Haymarket Square, prominent business leaders in Chicago became concerned that they and their families might be targeted with violence. The area with Chicago’s most affluent business leaders in the late 19th Century was Prairie Avenue in the South Loop, home to Marshall Field, George Pullman, Phillip Armour, Potter Palmer, among others, on a stretch of opulent homes known as “Millionaire’s Row.”

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