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Ada Kelplay first woman to graduate from law school in 1870
1871
Great Chicago Fire
Montgomery Ward founded
1872
First Black Police Officer
1873
Financial Panic (through 1879)
May Hulett first woman elected to Illinois Bar
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The Singer Building
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In 1868, on the retirement of Potter Palmer, Messrs. Field and Leiter removed their dry goods business from 110 and 112 Lake Street to the Singer building at the northeast corner of State and Washington Streets, which they occupied until the Chicago Fire in 1871. Fashionable residences and the Second Presbyterian Church are seen at the right.
Courtesy of "Chicago and Its Makers" (Chicago: Felix Mendelsohn, 1929).
Other images from this year
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